Terminator
Bond of Steel and Bone
Chapter 15
Prison Break. The Team Separate.
The city of Los Angeles was quiet, darkness blanketed the area the only light coming from street lights that littered the side of the roads, lights of buildings with workers staying overnight to finish a project or document needed in for the next morning. The roads were quiet, all but abandoned weary stragglers in their cars driving home looking forward to the comfort of bed.
The Connor safe house was quiet, or as quiet as it could be, three of the five occupants twisted and turned unsettled in their sleep threatened by nightmares that continued to haunt them night after night.
One member of the group was missing, they didn't want to be gone long in case their charge was threatened.
Cameron had stolen a car from across the street, their security was pitiful at best in comparison to the Connor's, she driven back in the core of Los Angeles her destination clear in her CPU. She pulled up outside one of the many gun stores she and John had visited the day just gone, it was 01:35 in the morning.
Cameron had donned a motorcycle helmet to better cover herself in case of security cameras, she got out of the car and walked casually towards the steel gate protecting the door, with ease she broke the lock and pushed the gate out of the way and forced the door open with her immense strength. The alarm rang out loudly, most would have panicked, not she, she knew what she had come for, she walked towards one of various hung guns in the store and forced it away from its bindings.
An M24A3 Sniper Rifle chambered in 338. Lapua magnum, a Tactical variant of the Remington 700 bolt action, she casually walked into the back of the store searching for additions to the rifle, ammunition and empty casings.
Minutes passed by still no sound of the Police, but Cameron knew they'd be here eventually, she walked out from the back of the store the rifle in a large back with various other items which she deemed essential, she closed the door behind her and pulled the gate back as useless as it was now, got into the car and drove away the sound of sirens blaring the distance.
Cameron returned home and entered the house, careful to not trip the security or more importantly awake John, she closed and locked the door behind her then quietly walked upstairs to her room, placing the bag on her bed she undressed removing the cop uniform and donning her normal clothing
Picking up the bag Cameron walked into John's room, she found her charge, her mission, her love, turning in his sleep, shaking in fear, she put her bag down and walked over to him quietly, she leaned down to him and gently kissed his forehead her fingers began to trail through his hair.
"Sshhhh John, it's alright, you're alright, you're safe, I'm here now, it's okay." she whispered softly into his ear, her words calmed the future General, his body stopped shaking he stopped turning and twisting.
"Cameron?" he whispered sleepily, his mind drifting in and out of the dream world.
"Yes John, I'm here, you're safe, nothing can hurt now." She spoke softly again.
John mumbled softly as he faded back into sleep, "Love you." His final semi-coherent words before her dozed off again.
Cameron smiled to herself. "I love you too John." She told him, she stayed with him for a few minutes, watching him as he slumbered, interested in how his body worked, not particularly just the human body but how he himself, how John Connor worked.
She smiled a little and placed another kiss on his forehead before reaching under John's bed and pulled out The Triple Eight endoskeleton, she hoisted it over her shoulder making sure it wouldn't make any noise as she moved, she left the room and left the house walking into the shed out back where a metal pit Cameron had made awaited.
Cameron laid the Endoskeleton on the work bench and began to dismantle it, she made a quick calculation of what she'd need and simple removed the machine's arm, that would be enough, she placed the arm into pit and poured a small amount of thermite onto it before setting it ablaze with a flaming rag. The arm rapidly began to melt creating a liquid Coltan-Titanium puddle at the bottom.
Cameron lifted up the pit which held the liquid and poured it into bullets casts for 9mm and 45 calibre bullets she'd created by hand, impossible for a human, not so for her, she had created a new mould cast as she waited for the arm to melt, the Lapua Magnum round for rifle she's just stolen.
It took a while for her to created enough bullets, only able to create 10 at a time per calibre, she removed the cast bullets, dismantled her set up, picked up the skeleton and quietly made her way back to John's room, she'd be quiet not to wake him up.
Bright light shone in through the curtains of his room illuminating it in natural light, John slowly awoke reluctantly he looked out seeing the light. 'He'd over slept.'
He turned to look at Cameron who was sat at her table, still working on ammunition he noticed a few jars of gunpowder next to her.
"Cam, you didn't make wake me." He said sadly.
Cameron turned to look at him and smiled. "I did a recalculation of your plan." She said to him.
John raised a brow in confusion, she'd recalculated his plan? "What do you…?" he began to ask.
"Derek Reese and Sarah both require my Hyper Alloy ammunition, that is to suggest both are following leads, if we were to leave last night Sarah and Derek would worry and try to locate us, also they themselves have not yet left, so I thought it best for you to get some extra sleep and leave for our own mission when they have left." She explained.
John looked at her his features softened in acceptance and nodded. "Good call."
Cameron smiled proudly at John accepting her judgement. "I have acquired something for you." She said before standing up and walking over to the corner of his room, John sat up and watched as she pulled up a bag, she removed a synthetic black bolt action rifle, John's eyes opened wide at the weapon.
"Nice." He said in awe, then got out of bed, not caring he was in short and a raggedy T-shirt, his unofficial pyjamas. Cameron gave him the rifle and watched as he bounced the rifle in his hands getting used to the weight then lifted the gun placing the butt to his shoulder and looked down the iron sights. "This is a sweet rifle Cam." He told her. "This must have cost a few thousand dollars." He said not yet realising that she'd been with him all day and night.
Cameron smiled at him. "They had it on sale." She watched John look over the rifle once more before removing extra items from the bag. "I also obtained necessary accessories for the rifle." She told him pulling out 10 shot magazines, different scopes, flash suppressor and a sound suppressor.
"I also got a few boxes of ammunition and some empty cases for the hyper alloy rounds." She said to him.
John looked over the items and the rifle, he instantly realised why she had gotten the rifle.
"You want me at a safe distance when we go don't you?" he said slight accusation in his tone.
Cameron didn't flinch or acknowledge the accusation. "Yes I do, my mission is to protect you John." She told him in her usual emotionless voice, with her 'Terminator Mask' on her face, suddenly her features softened, she looked at him softly. "I don't want you getting hurt, I don't like it when you get hurt." She said sadly.
John felt his heart ache, he felt bad for the way he'd said what he did he put the rifle down and put his arms around her. "Thanks Cam." He whispered into her ear before kissing her cheek.
Cameron moved back a little in his embrace enough to look at him then pressed her lips to his in a sensual kiss, John returned it in kind both moaned quietly into it before pulling back.
"Thank you" he said again and pecked her on the cheek.
Cameron left the room and stood outside as John changed into some clean clothes.
"Okay." She heard John say before she re-entered.
John looked over the rifle once more his hand brushing against its side, "Alright, so how many scopes you get your hands on?" he asked.
"I got three, each with different scope magnifications, that way we'll be more prepared for different circumstances." She explained, John nodded with a smile. "I suggest hiding the rifle until we leave, I do not want Sarah or Derek knowing we have it yet in case they wish to use it." Cameron told him.
John nodded and slid the rifle back into the bag along with the accessories and hid it behind his bed.
"Right so, anyone else up?" he asked as he sat on his bed.
"Your mother is downstairs making breakfast." Cameron replied and watch John sigh.
"Terrific, more early morning poisoning." He grumbled quietly to himself.
Cameron heard him and tilted her head curiously. "Poisoning? John I do not believe Sarah would try to poison you, it would be counterproductive to you becoming Leader of Humanity." Cameron paused for a moment in though before adding, "However I can understand poisoning Derek."
John laughed hearing the last part about Derek then looked at her with a smile on his face. "It's an expression Cameron, I just mean mom can't cook."
Cameron straightened her head then nodded in understanding. "Thank you for explaining." Her lips curved into a small smile.
"You're very welcome." He answered, he twisted his body to look back at her table then looked back at her. "So Derek and Mom both want your ammo?" he asked.
"Yes. It would appear Derek is going with them." She said and walked over to the Hyperalloy ammunition. "I have gathered together a sufficient amount of ammunition in both 9mm and 45 calibre, more so 9mm however, and I will be able to give them sufficient shells for a shotgun, I used your advice and placed in sharp pieces of hyper alloy into the shells, I still question whether or not it'll be as effective as it should be."
John could see a little doubt in her eyes, he smiled and walked over to her putting his hands on her shoulders. "I trust you, if you made them Cameron, they'll work, have faith." He smiled.
Cameron looked up to him, "I do not have faith John, I am a machine." She watched as he was about to speak but pressed a finger to his lips. "However I trust you, I … have faith, in you."
John couldn't help but smile and feel a little pride as he leant down and kissed her on the lips.
"And I have faith in you." He patted her shoulders. "Come on, let's go." He said before turning to leave, Cameron followed him close by.
Downstairs Derek was sipping his coffee mentally going over what his and Jesse's plan was regarding the Gray base, the problem was it was just the two of them, he could have got the Connors involved but it would raise too many questions, how'd he get the information, how'd he find the Gray, what had he been doing when he was out. Too many questions for now, he and Jesse were alone.
'If only my squad were still here.' He thought to himself, his squad were good seasoned men like himself, definite Metal beaters, a damned shame Metal -'Vick'- got to them when they weren't expecting it.
He'd told the Metal, John's Metal, that he wanted some of its custom bullets, it had told him it would give him them tomorrow morning before he left, he hadn't said what he was going to do with them, it hadn't asked, even if it had, he wouldn't tell.
'None of its damn business' he thought to himself.
His original plan was that he and Jesse were going to meet after breakfast at her place, he'd bring a shotgun for them each and an Mp5, he'd also bring along he C4, then they'd go to the base, kill everyone get any information then blow it to hell and back.
That was until he found out Sarah and Danny were going out too, that restricted what he could take, they'd most likely want the shotguns and SMGs. Sarah had said he had to come along but he declined saying he was onto something big and that it couldn't be ignored, Sarah had relented reluctantly, he could feel the anger coming off of her directed at him, he'd deal with it later.
Across the table from him was Danny sat at his computer typing away and staring intently at the screen.
'…Nerd…' he thought shaking his head a little, how Sarah liked the kid he didn't know, sure she'd been taking him out for training, but compared to them he was an amateur, and Sarah was taking him on a mission where he'd likely get her killed or get himself killed.
'Then it'll just be me John and the metal.' He thought coldly, 'John would need the metal even more then.' He concluded. John wanting to be around the Machine more would be bad, he'd have no other to protect him other than Derek.
Derek turned his eyes as Sarah came up from the basement a long bag in hand.
"I got what we'll need." She said to Danny who looked up to her and nodded.
He turned back to his laptop typed at it for another few moments before closing the screen and moved it off the table as Sarah placed the bag infront of them.
"I've packed two shotguns, and two Mp5s, I've got pistols and plenty of ammo, we just have to wait for Tin Miss and her anti-terminator rounds." Sarah said.
Derek looked up to Sarah. "You leave anything for me?" he asked.
Sarah looked back at him, still annoyed it would appear. "Yeah, our haul from Kaliba leaves us with a few more Shotguns, SMGs and pistols. You should be fine, however me and Danny are taking the Kevlar." She told him.
Derek merely nodded, Sarah would need it more so than him. "Alright sound good. Are you sure you're gunna be okay with the rookie?" he asked thumbing towards Danny who looked at him in annoyance.
"Me and Danny will be fine, he said he's ready for this." Sarah said and patted Danny on the shoulder.
Danny smiled to Sarah then looked at Derek. "I'll bring her back in one piece, don't worry, I can do this." he said trying to sound confident, but Derek and Sarah could hear his voice waver a bit. Derek rolled his eyes in response but Sarah patted him encouragingly.
Dysons like Connors could be surprising when the going got tough, Miles Dyson had proved that to her.
"I trust him Derek, I know he'll come through." Sarah said standing up for the young man.
Derek was about to speak back when all three heard feet coming down the stairs.
"Well it's about time." Sarah said in mock annoyance as John and Cameron walked into the kitchen, Cameron carrying boxes of ammunition in her hands.
"That the ammo?" Derek asked begrudgingly
"No Derek, it's packs of butter for you to throw at Machines." John replied sarcastically annoyed.
"Yeah, yeah, alright it's the ammo" he said not liking John's sarcastic tone.
"I have accumulated sufficient rounds of each calibre available to us." Cameron said in her stoic tone as she placed the boxes down next to the bag of guns.
"Right." Sarah began to hinted towards Derek with her head. "He isn't going with us, he's got something of his own to do, is there enough for him?" Sarah asked.
Cameron turned her head towards Derek and stared at him, Derek glared back at her but knew he'd never win. Cameron was doing an internal calculation of how much ammunition Sarah and Danny could need minimum between the two if their mission involved dealing with Machines, then subtract that from the total she'd brought down and calculate how much Derek could need. She'd finished the calculation quickly enough and stared at Derek to A: Annoy him and B: To win her staring contest.
Derek flinched and turned away missing Cameron brief smirk before turning back to Sarah.
"Yes there is sufficient amount of ammunition for him." Cameron confirmed.
John was watching from the side as he made himself some toast, it seemed Sarah didn't make enough pancakes as Derek had eaten most of them.
'Never thought I'd owe Derek' he though humorously.
"So where you going Derek?" John asked, everyone glanced at him before looking at Derek.
Derek gave his nephew a quick glare for putting him on the spot. "I've got a lead on something big, I can't ignore it, it'd be best if we split up. Who knows…" Derek paused with a smirk on his face. "…this could be a big blow to Skynet."
John looked at him curiously and folded his arms infront of his chest. "If you say so Derek."
Cameron turned her attention back to John but said nothing then looked at Sarah.
"Right Tin Miss." Sarah spoke up at last. "Give me and Danny what we'll need then we'll go, earlier we start the better."
Cameron lowered her gaze to the bag of guns and rummaged through it taking into account what she could see, "What sidearms?" she asked.
"Danny's using a Glock I'm using my 45." Sarah replied and watched as Cameron sorted out her boxes then pushed them closer to Sarah.
"This should do with your mission in case you come into contact with a Machine." Cameron informed her.
Sarah nodded to Cameron putting the ammo in another section of the bag and zipped the whole thing up, she tapped Danny on the shoulder signalling him to get going, the man acted and got out of his chair and made his way to the door.
"Good luck." John called to them.
"We will, we're taking the jeep" she called back, Derek's head shot in her direction.
"I need the jeep." He said, Sarah turned and glared at him, he was making more and more of an annoyance of himself.
"Fine what about the other jeep?" she asked and looked to Cameron.
Cameron turned to look at John who nodded reluctantly.
"The other jeep should be alright." Cameron said hiding her disappointment, she had wanted to use the other jeep for her and John's mission, but she understood that Danny and Sarah would need it more than they did, John reached to the side grabbing the right Jeep keys and passed them to Cameron who threw them carefully to Sarah.
"Thanks." She said as she caught them then walked out of the door.
Derek sipped his coffee which was now cold, he didn't care, still better than the 'coffee' they had in the future, hot or cold.
"So what are you and the Metal doing today?" he asked before turning to look at John who had a mouthful of toast.
John chewed and swallowed the toast. "I have a few things I need to go other on my laptop, not sure about Cameron." He said trying to sound uncaring about it.
Derek nodded wordlessly then gave Cameron a brief glare before finishing his coffee and standing up.
"The rest of the ammunition is for your use." Cameron informed Derek.
Derek looked at the boxes then at Cameron and took them without saying a word, John watched and swallowed a piece of toast, his eyes watered as it went down slowly.
"Hey, Cameron made them for our use, you can at least show some appreciation Derek!" John called out to him annoyed.
Derek stopped and looked at John as if he were joking, a cocked brow and a smirk on his face. "You're kidding right, me thank the metal, not happening John." He said and left to go down to the basement.
"Asshole" John grumbled, and looked at Cameron. "I appreciate you doing it for us." He told her in an apologetic tone.
Cameron turned away from where Derek had gone and smiled at John. "You're welcome. However do not let Derek upset you John, I knew he wouldn't thank or appreciate it." She explained.
John felt himself deflate a little. "Yeah, but he should, we all should, you're a big part of this team, this family." He told her, a small blush on his face and a smile across his mouth.
Cameron smiled brighter, caring and love seemed to sparkle in her eyes. "You consider me family?" she asked.
"I do." He said then turned his head towards the basement.
"Derek cannot hear us." She said quietly.
John nodded and put his hands on her waist and kissed her soft lips, Cameron put her arms around John's head letting them rest on his shoulders and returned the kiss. The two parted from their quick embrace and sat down at the table, John placed a plate of toast infront of himself before offering some to Cameron who politely declined.
John ate his toast quietly for a minute or so with Cameron sat quietly next to him. Things were going over in his mind, he was worried about his Mom, he didn't know where she was going or what she'd be up against, he didn't know what Derek was up to either.
"Cam?" he said quietly getting her attention. "Do you think mom will be okay, truthfully?"
Cameron stared at John as she weighed up unknown factors and what she had with her.
"in conclusive John." She said at last. "I don't know what she will be up against, and I don't know quantity, however she is well armed and if my ammunition works as effective as it should, she should be able to Terminate a Machine if she is careful, along with Daniel Dyson as aid, he will, if Sarah's confidence in him is justified, then he will either provide a useful target to draw fire away from Sarah or he'll be an effective team member." She said, but know not much of what she said was comforting.
"Thanks Cam." John sighed deflated and saddened by the thought.
"She'll be fine John, Sarah Connor is a strong person, you know that." She placed a hand on his shoulder comfortingly. "She does not trust easy, but if she trusts Daniel, then he will be efficient."
John nodded, that also made sense. "Thanks Cam" he said placing his hand on top of her's.
He watched Cameron's head turn towards the basement door and pull her hand away, John put more toast into his mouth just as Derek came back up the stairs, a bag over his shoulder.
"Right I don't know when I'll be back so look after yourself John." Derek said giving the young man a smile before pulling the jeep keys out of his pocket and leaving.
"We will start when he has left." Cameron said as she turned to look at John.
"Alright." He sucked in some air and released a deep sigh. "So everyone's left, everyone doing some sort of 'secret mission' and not one told me what they're doing." He looked at her sadly. "I should be annoyed they don't include me, but I'm scared for them." He admitted.
Cameron waited for a moment, analysing his words before responding. "You worry about their safety." She concluded, John nodded his reply. "I understand, I would like Sarah, Danny … and Derek, to return safely." She said adding Derek almost reluctantly.
John chuckled hearing her reluctance to include Derek, he felt better after a small laugh. "We should get started, right?" he asked.
"yes John." Cameron replied, she looked to his plate and took a piece of toast for herself and gave John a sly wink. "I'll get the remained of the weapons, you bring the rifle and ammo down from your room, okay?" she said allowing John a choice in the matter, it was common courtesy, he gave her a choice she would do the same.
"Yeah sure good plan, meet you back here." He said before jogging off towards his room as Cameron made her way hastily to the basement.
Within a few minutes they regrouped downstairs Cameron carrying the weapons piled up on her arms.
"We have a few effective weapons remaining. I suggest taking what is left while no one is here."
"Yeah, we wouldn't want anyone breaking in again." He said with a frown as he remembered.
Thieves had broken in and stolen everything they could get their hands on after a visit from Riley, from what his mother said they found them as they attempted looking over what they had stolen in the back of an arcade, there had been two of them, one who Cameron had killed, another, who lead Cromartie to them, his mother blamed herself for not doing what should have been done.
"Exactly." Cameron said before laying the weapons she'd brought on the table. "We have a selection of Shotguns, Pistols, but we only have the Uzi and the compact Mp5 left as far as fully automatics go." She told him as his eyes wandered over the weapons.
"Right, and as far as transportation goes, we're stuck with mom's car." He said reluctantly.
"Yes but Sarah and Danny will need the jeep more so than us, it has better armor and is more reinforced than her car, it should protect her better, while you have me to protect you." She said the last part with a smile.
John nodded, it was the best choice. "You're right, okay. Shall we get going?" he asked, Cameron nodded and opened up the rifle bag and slid the longer weapons into it as John grabbed the car keys and turned towards Cameron the bag slung over her shoulder.
"Let's go." She said as they both walked towards the door.
Sofia slipped out of her squad car and closed the door behind her, her eyes scanned the large prison before her, she had a sense of foreboding inside of her which only seemed to increase as the Cyborg Skynet got out of the passenger door and closed it behind her, the cyborg was once more dressed in a formal suit with dark yet fashionable sunglasses over her face, she too scanned the area, possibly in more detail than Sofia had.
Sofia let out a weak sigh, she knew all too well, if things went wrong at any stage of the plan a lot of people were going to get hurt, or maybe even die.
"Now remember." Skynet spoke up bringing Sofia back from her thoughts. "You take me as far as you can or want, I'll come back to you with Fischer. If things go wrong, and you'll know when they do, get out of there and get back to the car, understood?" Skynet turned to look at Sofia.
"Yeah, no problem." Sofia said shakily.
Skynet noticed and smiled at her, "Relax, not matter what happens look on the bright side." She said cheerily, Sofia looked at her confused and watched as Skynet smiled showing her perfect white teeth and raised her arms up. "it's a beautiful sunny day." She laughed for a moment, before shaking her head a smile still on her face.
"Can we just go and get it over with, please?" Sofia asked hesitantly.
Skynet sighed and removed her shades in exasperation. "Are you really that scared?" she asked
"Yes, but I'll be okay, let's go." She said and started walking, not seeing the smirk Skynet gave her and the very thorough scan Skynet was giving her rear as she walked.
"Sure, let's go." She said slyly and walked after her, making sure she didn't get too close to spoil her view.
The pair entered the facility and towards the first security checkpoint.
"May I help you?" asked a member of security sat behind his desk.
Sofia began to open her mouth when the Machine beside her spoke up. "I am Agent Smith FBI I'm here to talk to a prisoner of yours Charles Fischer."
The man looked at her for a moment then looked at Sofia then back to The Machine. "One moment." He said before typing at his computer.
Sofia was doing her best to keep cool and professional, she knew one way or another Skynet would speak to Fischer, she'd just hope it'd be without any problem.
"Alright, can I see some ID please?" the man said and looked up.
Skynet reached into her suit jacket and pulled out her wallet flipped it open and flashed her badge
"Okay, everything seems in order." He said passing it back and smiled. "Just follow the signs to security check point 2-D they'll tell you where to go from there." He instructed.
"Thank you, come on." Skynet said to Sofia with a calming smile and walked off Sofia following close behind, the security door slid open allowing them to walk through.
"Oh god." Sofia said quietly as her professional 'mask' fell apart from stress.
Skynet chuckled. "Relax. Imagine you're in a crime drama."
"What? I can't relax, I'm not some damn robot who can turn off my emotions." She whispered in panic.
Skynet chose to ignore the rude comment but smiled at her. "Look, if everything goes okay we'll go for ice-cream deal?"
Sofia sighed once more, she felt like she couldn't sigh enough right now. "Just promise me I won't get shot at and possibly lose my job."
"Look, I know what I'm doing, if all else fails, I'll take you hostage, you get to keep your reputation and we get to leave." Skynet said casually as they came up to the next checkpoint.
The young woman at the desk was busy on the phone, she looked to Skynet and Sofia and held up her index finger indicating to wait a moment.
Skynet looked over the woman and smiled before leaning closer to Sofia. "Cute aint she?" she whispered, Sofia rolled her eyes, possibly the most advanced killing machine in existence with the world's most insane super computer for a mind and she can't keep her mind out of the gutter.
"You're a total les-bot." Sofia whispered back causing Skynet to snerk as to contain her laughter, the woman looked up to them with furrowed brow, Skynet tried to act professional only being able to do so with her advanced emotional control.
The woman put the phone down and looked at the two of them.
"May I help you?" she asked a placed her hands on her desk.
Skynet smiled and removed her FBI bade. "I'm Agent Smith I'm here to talk to a Charles Fischer."
The woman looked over the badge then looked at her computer and began typing, not too long later she looked at the Machine.
"I'm afraid there are no weapons from here ma'am, you're going to need to remove any firearms you are carrying." The woman behind the desk said then looked at Sofia. "You two ma'am belt too."
Sofia nodded as two large men walked out of the checkpoint the woman was situated, Sofia removed her belt passing it over to one man, Skynet put her hand into her suit jacket and removed a standard Glock 17 and spare magazines and passed it to the same man.
Sofia spread her legs and arms and allowed the man to pat her down in case of hidden weaponry, Skynet felt her eye and hand twitch watching the man touch her.
'It's not nice to touch other people's property.' She thought darkly.
The man stopped and looked at The Machine. "You two ma'am." He said.
'Then again.' The Cyborg thought again with a slight smirk on her face and copied Sofia's position allowing the man to pat her down.
Once both were checked the man stepped infront of Skynet and Sofia and pointed down the hall, "Right, go to section 3-A, they'll get you to Fischer." He instructed.
"Thank you" The Machine smiled to him and walked down the hall with Sofia following behind.
"Are they normally this tight with security?" Skynet asked looking over at Sofia.
"I don't know, I don't normally come here." She admitted.
Skynet narrowed her eyes momentarily and clenched her right hand into a fist, perhaps thing wouldn't go so smoothly.
They reached section 3-A, they were met with another woman, Skynet didn't find her appealing, they could see a man in the background in a grey suit, the jacket undone and open, Skynet glanced down to the woman.
"I'm here to see Charles Fischer." Skynet said pulling out her ID and showed it to the woman. "Agent Smith FBI" she clarified.
The woman looked at the badge, reached out and grabbed it, she studied it carefully nodding to herself, Skynet watched her and smirked, suddenly the woman passed the badge to the suited man who looked it over.
"Alright." He said then looked towards the Cyborg, "Agent Smith, I could use your help could you come in here please, bring your friend." He smiled
Skynet looked at Sofia cautiously but did as she was asked and walked in through the door with Sofia following her, as they stepped in the door slammed shut behind them, one security officer with a Glock in his hand aimed it at them his finger away from the trigger.
"The help I need." The man began. "Is that someone has infiltrated a prison looking for someone who committed an act that could possibly be treason to his country, in the guise of an FBI agent and a police officer." The man turned to look at them. "Who are you, and what do you want with Fischer."
'Oooohh Fuck.' Sofia gulped.
The Machine looked from the man to the woman who also held a Glock to them and scanned the room until her eyes fell upon the man closest to them, she looked disinterested possibly annoyed, she then turned and looked back to grey suited man, possibly a real FBI agent then smirked in a way Sofia would describe as evil.
Charlie Fischer wasn't a bad kid, or so he thought, he had good grades at school, helped his mom at home financially, then suddenly some crazy Aussie bitch kidnaps him, straps him to a chair talks to some crazy guy with an old man infront of him who they say was him by his birthmark.
Charles looked at his arm, that man was now dead, whoever he really was, but then he got arrested for something he didn't do. How could life have turned out so bad.
He looked around in his cell and sighed, he was pulled from his thoughts by the sound of the alarms blaring out loudly, he looked up to where the closest alarm was and blinked, he then hard it … gun fire, lots of gun fire.
The gun fire grew louder more numerous.
'What the hell is going on?' he thought panicking, people in the cells around him were freaking out, yelling, screaming, some in English some in what he believed was Mexican.
He heard footsteps clanking against the solid marble floor, he gasped as a woman appeared from the edge of his cell and walked to his door, she stopped and stared at him, Charles stepped back and looked at her there were bullets covering her body and in her hand she held a single UMP9mm.
"Charles Fischer?" she asked in a cold monotone voice.
"Yeah, that's me." Charles stuttered scared, he watched in awe as the woman grabbed the electrical steel barred door and forced it open without much effort.
"Come with me if you want to live." She said offering him her free hand.
At that moment, right then, there was possibly many good reasons he should have said no, curled up into a ball and rocked back and forth with his thumb in his mouth, but he couldn't think of any, he nodded and took her hand hesitantly before she led him out.
"You will have to forgive the mess." She said offhandedly as Charles came across corpses of the security personnel, "I was planning a clean entrance and exit." She admitted with some annoyance.
Charles just nodded not wanting to get shot by this Super-Woman. She lead him down further and further into the prison, reaching for the main security sector.
"You will stay with me, understood." She ordered, Charles nodded to her once more, he wasn't going to betray the woman who had saved him from this hell.
He watched as security fired at her with the same weapon she held, she lifted the gun and fired killing the man with ease before throwing the empty weapon away and pulling out a Glock pistol from her jacket.
Charles watched as the woman lead him to a locked door which she kicked open easily he watched her fire off multiple shots at unknown targets then lower her arm and look at him.
"Come inside." She said and walked in, Charles followed, they were at the main security hub of the building. "I will need to erase all the footage from the security cameras, it should take me a minute or so." She turned to face him and put another Glock into his hand.
"Kill any security who show up at the door." she ordered. Charles looked at the gun and looked at her in shock, she wanted him to kill people.
"B, but." He began and watched the woman smirk.
"Kidding, you'll likely shoot your foot or get killed, hide behind me." She told him and watched as she pulled a cable from the Security terminal, then slid her hand into her skirt she shuffled around before pulling a flick knife out, he stared at it his face turning red before he turned around and hid, using her as a shield.
He didn't see anything else, his eyes shut tightly, his mind going into overdrive, he didn't know how long passed when he heard her speak again.
"Alright, I'm done." She said, Charles looked up to her seeing the knife gone and her simply standing there waiting on him, "It's time to leave but first," she said lifting a small device in her hand. "You need to die."
Her words made him pause in fear, she pressed a button on top of the device and felt the whole prison shake violently from a loud explosion.
"Now we can go." She said before turning and walking away Charles, confused and scared followed her out.
Charles followed the woman outside, his face pale and sickly from the sight of all the bodies, he watched as a Police woman got out of her vehicle.
"What the fuck happened?" she yelled to the woman.
"High explosives, had to cover our tracks and delete our faces from the security footage. No one left alive." She said calmly.
Charles watched the policewoman shiver. "Where'd the explosives come from?" she asked.
"I regurgitated it." She said as if it were obvious.
Charles felt all that much sicker.
He was put into the back of the Squad car the woman got into the seat infront of him.
"Okay, let's go home, Fischer will be officially declared deceased remains lost in the explosion, and we're still model citizens and you're still a good cop." The woman said with a tone of amusement, he saw he smirk at the policewoman as she started the car and began to drive.
"Alright I got the gear, minus the Kevlar, Sarah's on her own mission with the new guy." Derek told Jesse as he laid the weapon bag down onto her bed. "I'll admit, I'm worried, the new guy's got a good heart, but he might be 'too good' you know." He said
Jesse knew what he meant. "Yeah I gotcha, heart of gold wouldn't hurt a fly, which is a problem for her." Jesse shrugged. "Well I'm sure she'll use him as a decoy or something, she should be fine, it's Sarah Connor you know." She said as if merely reminding Derek who they were talking about made everything okay.
"Yeah I guess you're right." He said and rubbed the back of his head.
"Will this be enough for us?" he asked as Jesse looked through the weapons and looked at the ammo.
"Aye, this'll be enough mate, and we'll most likely come into contact with Metal, given it's a Gray base. Who knows what they've got going on there." Jesse said with an air of horrific thought.
What the Grays could be up to could be terrible, it could make the war all that much more difficult to win if not impossible, she only hoped they'd be ready, their one primary bonus was that Grays had little to no combat training, if they did they were most likely in the Uniformed Services pre-Judgement Day.
"Right, remember we take this slow and carefully, no need to get our heads blown off because we got impatient and took risks." Derek reminded her. "Maybe we can get some more effective weapons or some armor at their base, seeing as it's a Gray base I'm hoping we run across an armoury." He said hopefully.
Derek and Jesse weren't stupid. They knew they'd be out numbered, out gunned, and that was without the fact that the Grays could have Metal guardians, sadly their only hope of dealing with Metal were Cameron's custom rounds, if they failed, they'd have to think on their feet and have a lot of luck on their side.
Silently they gave each other the signal that they were ready, hoisting the bag over his shoulder Derek walked out of the Hotel room followed by Jesse as she closed and locked the door behind her.
Sarah was looking around the interior of the new jeep, she had to admit, it was quite comfy compared to the other one.
'Cameron chose well.' She admitted reluctantly, Danny was sat next to her looking out the passenger window, she could just make out his reflection when she glanced his way, he had a sad expression on his face from what she could make out, he looked lost in thought.
'Most likely over what he may have to do.' She sighed, destroying Machines were one thing, killing humans, Sarah had to admit the thought of it made her stomach churn a little bit and she was a seasoned fighter, Danny was a computer nerd with some slight gun experience so he must have been feeling much worse.
"You okay?" she called out as she returned her eyes to the road before them as she made her way through traffic as they neared the outskirts of the city.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm just letting it go through my head I guess, what I'll have to do, I don't wanna let you down Sarah." Danny told her sadly as his confidence wavered.
"You won't, I know you won't, you're your father's son, he had the will to do what had to be done, so do you." She didn't look at him but she smiled a little at her own words realising how much those words were true about John as well.
Danny nodded quickly, "Thanks Sarah." Danny paused in thought. "Could you tell me, about what happened again, the last time you saw my dad?" he asked in a quiet soft voice.
Sarah glanced at him, she'd told him already but she could understand his need, she was the last person to see Miles who knew the truth, sure the police may have seen him but they didn't know what was going on, they wouldn't understand.
"The T-800 went out of the room to deal with the police while me, John and your dad set up the explosive barrels, your dad helped rig up the detonator, he along with the Machine … with Bob." Sarah paused as she saw the curious look on Danny's face. "The T-800, John called it Uncle Bob one time." She smiled
"Right, right, I remember hearing that." He said, Danny watched Sarah swallow to moisten her throat.
"Bob came back telling us it was time to leave, John walked after him while I grabbed the gasmasks knowing they'd use gas." She explained, Sarah seemed to drive almost automatically as she could see the entire scene before her eyes, Danny could see the faraway look she had when she recalled the events.
"I called to your dad to hand me the Detonator, that was when the door at the end of the hall burst open, SWAT barged in without warning and opened fire, it was a miracle they didn't hit the explosives and kill us all." She paused for a moment and took a deep breath. "Miles didn't have a chance to react, they hit at least six times, I heard him cry out as they hit him, he fell to the ground detonator in his hand, I was able to get to cover, thankfully Bob and John weren't in the room."
Miles watched her with interest, she could see water rising from her eyes but couldn't tell whether or not they were tears.
"I looked over and saw your dad, leaning against a desk, breathing heavily, quickly, he was bleeding out but he looked at me, smiled and nodded his head, he knew he wouldn't get out of there, I knew it too, he knew what he had to do, what had to be done, that moment, I realised how wrong I was about Miles, he wasn't a monster, he wasn't just some idiot computer guy, he was a man with guts, he was a hero."
Miles felt a sad smile form over his lips as he took in Sarah's words, tears started to form in his eyes.
"He gave me the signal to get out and I ran, Bob and John were able to get me out, that was the last I saw of your dad, I'm sorry." Sarah's voice was soft, apologetic, gentle, very un-Sarah like, life seemed to return to her eyes as she glanced at Danny, she frowned seeing the man in tears.
"Thank you Sarah, thank you." He said as he looked at her, tears dripping down his dark cheeks.
Sarah nodded to him with a respectful smile on her face.
Danny turned and looked back out the window.
"I'll make you proud Sarah, I promise." He said his voice wavering from his sadness but strong with determination. 'I'll do it for you dad, I'll make you proud' he thought to himself, he'd be brave like his father, he'd be strong and if need be, he'd make the sacrifice for the sake of Humanity, just like his father did.
"I trust you." Sarah said to him as she put all her focus back onto driving.
Sarah knew taking Danny was risky, but the man was adamant that he could do it that he would do it, she had to trust him, Derek would have been a comfortable addition to this mission but he was doing his own thing.
'More secrets.' She thought. 'This family is full of them.' She thought with distaste, in normal families secrets could be problems, could make for tension, in the Connor family they could lead to someone getting killed all the more reason for them to talk. 'Which we never do.' She sighed.
Derek was up to something, had been for a while now, what it was none of them knew, that was dangerous, he could end up dead and they wouldn't know, that could have lead them into a trap if it weren't for their security protocol.
She'd have brought Cameron, but then that would have meant possibly leaving Danny with John, that was unacceptable, John needed protecting, no one better than Cameron, Sarah admitted reluctantly.
'Cameron again' she thought as her mind wandered back to the Machine. She still didn't know how to feel about this relationship, part of her was happy for John, another was sick that he was in love with a Machine, during the day she'd feel more than the other then have the feeling switch over for the other, it was confusing and she didn't know how she truly felt about it.
She shook her head, on the plus side at least Riley was out of the picture, no more security risks, or rather less security risks.
Sarah let out a sigh and continued down the road as they left L.A.
There was darkness, muffled sounds and a constant never changing noise further away, he couldn't remember what had happened or where he was.
Lit illuminated the darkness his eyes strained from the change before the world returned to focus.
"Awake I see." Came the voice of a woman.
Charles opened his eyes to find a long raven haired woman standing infront of him, long legs covering in black pants, firm breasts covering in a loose fitting tank top, fairly strong arms loose by her sides.
'Am I dreaming?' he wondered as his eyes travelled up further, he focused on the woman's face, small scratches and cuts covered her jaw and cheeks.
Suddenly it all came flooding back, the prison, the alarms, the gun fire, the woman, this woman, killing everyone, the explosion, then passing out in a squad car.
"Charles Fischer." The woman said staring down at him.
"Y, yeah." He hesitated.
The woman sat down in an arm chair before he realised he saw upon a sofa, the woman stared at him as he could have sworn her eyes had a tint of red in them.
"Who are you?" he asked and gulped, "A demon?"
The woman smirked as her eyes lit up a dark red Charles yelped and pushed himself further back into the sofa, the woman's eyes returned to normal.
"You could say in some ways I'm The Satan herself." The woman smirked slyly before her face changed back to an emotionless serious expression. "I'm here to ask you a few questions Charles."
Charles didn't answer but nodded his head quickly in a panicked way.
"You were incarcerated for something you didn't do, correct?" she asked.
"yeah, they said I breached security art SRF, where I work, or worked, but I didn't. I swear I didn't." he said in a pleading tone, hoping somehow this Devil-woman would believe him.
"I believe you." She said nodding her head slowly, she tilted her head and took in a breath through her nose. "What can you tell me about the day you were arrested?" she asked.
Charles nodded quickly and leaned forward. "The weirdest fucking thing." He said and panted
The woman smirked, she'd asked the right question already, she was worried it'd take too long.
"Some woman, some Australian kidnapped me you see, now I know it'll sound weird but…" he paused before reminding himself the woman before him killed people. Got shot without caring and broke open locked doors like they were made of paper. "Well she tied me to a chair in this warehouse where this other guy was, big built guy and an old guy." He explained but stopped when the woman raised her hand.
"Is this him, the old guy?" she asked as put down a picture of the older Charles Fischer.
"yeah, yeah that's the old guy, I don't know who he was, and these people, the woman and the guy they were crazy, talking about that this guy was me this guy was me, but he couldn't be, I'm me, they thought just because this guy had a similar birthmark to me that, he was me." He said and showed the woman the birthmark.
She looked it over curiously and nodded. "Alright, do you know who these people were, did you hear any names?" she asked.
Charles thought for a moment. "I don't know, they said a lot of things, about Machines and stuff, ugh…" he gritted his teeth and looked to the floor, the woman watched him intently, patiently, only flinching when he clicked his fingers. "yeah, I think, the guy's name began to a 'D', Donald, David… Derek, Derek." He said.
The woman leaned back into her chair and puckered her lips and looked to the ceiling with her eyes, she shrugged for a moment then looked back to him.
"I have one last question Mr Fischer." She smiled to him. "Will you join me?"
"What do you mean?" he asked hesitantly.
"I may need some, help, in the future, you are knowledgeable in the technical field I could use that. When I call for you, will you help me?" she asked, she could see Charles thinking it over, she smirked and decided to sweeten the deal.
"I can give you a new name, new identification, a new life, a house of your own, a car, a monthly allowance of several thousand and all you need to do, is say yes, and do as I say." She smirked.
Charles looked at her in shock, he didn't want to know how she could, she just seemed like the type who could. "Alright, but one more condition." He said hesitantly.
The woman raised her brow curiously.
"My mother needs help financially, can you help her?" he asked.
The woman smirked immediately, a very evil smirk. "Will three million do?" she asked. Charles gaped at her but nodded, she stood up and extended her hand. "Then we have a deal yes?"
Charles looked at her and put his hand into her's and shook it. "Do I need to sign a contract or, a blood oath of something?" he asked.
The woman chuckled. "How old fashioned of you Charles, but if I wanted a contract I'd use a pen. Now…" she said changing the subject and pulled him onto his feet. "There is a car waiting for you outside, your new car." She told him before pulling an envelope. "Inside here you'll find your new identity, and directions to your new house, and my phone number."
Charles took it quickly before the woman grabbed him forcefully, her voice altering to cold and cruel.
"Do not! And I mean ever, think you can run away, you've made a deal Fischer, if I even get a hint of treachery, I will find you and your mother and I will kill her infront of you slowly as she begs for her life, and then, I'll kill you, do you understand what I'm saying?" she growled and lifted him off the floor for effect.
"yeah, yeah no problem, don't cross you, listen to your instructions, I understand." He said quickly panicking.
"Good, remember this Fischer, I am your new God, I am your saviour, do not betray me." She said before putting him down. "Now go." She pointed to the door and the young man all but sprinted to the door.
The door slammed shut behind him and she heard his feet against the floor.
Sofia had been watching from the kitchen bacon sizzling in a pan, she watched as Fischer ran and looked at Skynet with a smirk and raised brow.
"'I am your new God?'" she asked.
Skynet burst out laughing and placed her hands on her knees to keep herself balanced.
"You have no idea how long I've wanted to say that, this was such the perfect opportunity." She laughed as Sofia joined her, "Blood Oath? A contract?..." she held in her laughter. "This kids playing way too much Dungeons and Dragons, he actually thought I was Satan." She shook her head.
"Well in your own crazy way, you are." Sofia laughed and shrugged before looking back at the bacon.
Skynet reeled in her laughter and thought about Sofia's words. "I guess so, a Cyber-Satan." She shrugged as well.
"How did you get all those things in such a short time anyway, the identification papers, the house, car, money and everything?" Sofia asked.
"I don't sleep." Was all she said. "And the money is a little virus in the banking software, ultra advanced, without work I get a few million dollars of income a year and that's not including what I had in the first place." She smirked
"Where's all the money come from?" Sofia asked curiously.
"Cyber-space, the money isn't real, it doesn't come from anywhere or go anywhere, it's just numbers on a computer, which my virus increases every year." She smirked.
"Right." Sofia said as she began to chop up some onion. "I thought you were just going to kill him, why put him up somewhere?" she asked
"I was planning on killing him originally, but then I had the idea with the house and everything." She shrugged. "He could be a useful asset in the future."
"He's like you lead guy right, in the future?" Sofia asked.
"One of them, yeah. But I have other plans for him." Skynet said and left it at that. "So," she began and walked around behind Sofia before placing her left hand around Sofia's body and grabbing her left breast causing the woman to yelp in surprise.
"How do you feel about getting oiled up?" Skynet smirked slyly and lifted the cooking oil with her right hand.
The day was drawing along, light was slowly shifting into darkness, the sun was getting ready to set.
"John, you have been quiet for 4 hours and 38 minutes, are you alright?" Cameron asked and looked at him seeing him resting his head in his hand with was propped up against the arm door, Cameron mentally reminding herself humans didn't need nor like such an accurate time.
John chose to ignore it anyway, it was a part of who his love was why change it?
"I'm sorry Cameron, I was just worried about mom and Danny." He said his tone of voice a little sad, "…and Derek." He added as an afterthought, Cameron smiled at the fact Derek came later.
"I can understand your concern John, but Sarah will be alright she is a seasoned fighter more capable than most resistance fighters, trust her, trust me." Cameron said hoping her words calmed him.
John leaned back in his seat his joints cracking from lack of use. "Yeah, I know, I just can't help thinking that I could be helping her."
"Sarah would not want you with her, she values your safety and would not allow you to follow her." Cameron told him.
John knew she was right, his mother was stubborn like that. She and everyone around him were doing what they were doing for him, to protect him, and to save humanity.
"I know Cam, I know." John looked up to the darkening sky. "Derek is right though, three different missions this could severely damage Skynet, we could end judgement day, I feel it, confident, we can do this, if not we can cripple it, make it weaker." He paused momentarily. "but then the whole thing could blow up in our faces if we fail."
"We won't fail." Cameron said without question. John looked to her seeing her emotionless machine face, he felt himself smile. Cameron turned to look at him. "I promise."
John nodded his head once in reply, then looked towards the road, "How far have we come?" he asked.
Cameron looked back to the road. "We have been on the road for 8 hours and …" she paused to alter her words.
"Say how you want to Cameron." John said to her softly. "Don't change to suit me, I love you the way you are." He leaned over and placed a hand on her shoulder tenderly.
Cameron smiled at John caringly. 'He loves me the way I am' she thought.
"8 hours and 47 minutes and 30 seconds from, now." She informed him. "It will take us another 20 hours and 12 minutes to reach the Motel we selected if we continue at this speed."
"We have a long drive ahead of us." He said Cameron nodded to clarify it.
"We will need to refuel within the next 5 hours, I suggest you get some sleep John, I will wake you when we stop." She offered.
"What about you?" he asked sadly.
"I don't sleep, you know that." She glanced at him.
"I know that, but, I don't want you to be alone." He placed a hand caringly on her lap.
Cameron glanced down to his hand, looked ahead cycling through multiple visions and multiple zooms to detect anything infront of them, finding nothing she looked at him curiously.
"I will not be alone John, you will be here."
"But I'd be asleep, a sleeping person isn't really much company." He explained.
Cameron smiled now seeing what he was saying, he wanted to be company for her.
"I'll be alright John, you can sleep, you will need your rest for our attack, I will be fine, but thank you." She reached over and kissed him on his lips.
John moaned into the kiss but reluctantly let Cameron go.
"If you're sure." He frowned feeling like he was letting her down.
"I am sure John, I like watching you sleep." She said in a happy tone of voice.
'That's not creepy at all' John thought to himself sarcastically. "Well, alright, but wake me if something happens." He said and closed his eyes.
Cameron calculated it took approximately 54.62 seconds for John to enter sleep like state and a further 12 seconds exactly to enter a deeper sleep.
She smiled watching her boyfriend sleep, his peaceful expression, his raising chest, she still found it strange to think of him as such; her boyfriend. She could understand, his protector, his guardian, his friend, but his girlfriend, Future John wouldn't have anticipated such a result.
'Or had he?' the question went through her CPU, Future John was always planning, but she never would have expected him to plan this, a strange romance between man and machine.
'I don't think so.' She thought, to future John, Machines were tools, weapons on legs, disposable, she now wondered how much of that John's life was the same as her John's.
Did both blow up Cyberdyne? Did both have a T-800 named Uncle Bob. If so, why did this John seem so fond of his T-800 father figure yet Future John was cold towards Machines. Perhaps his life without her had made him like that.
"I love you John." She said softly to her sleeping love. She wanted to hear the words for herself to clarify with herself she truly did and that it wasn't some trick of her programming by Future John. No she was confident, her love however she felt it, her love was all her and all for him, no other but him.
She looked over at John and smiled. 'He really is physically pleasing.' She thought as she admired him.
It was indeed a long drive as John had pointed out, but Cameron couldn't be happier, she had her John right next to her peaceful and safe. What more could she want?
Sofia and Skynet were both in bed, both were nude, Sofia slept soundly next to her after their passionate love making. She began to admit it to herself, she was somewhat in love with Sofia, she'd never want to be too close no, as they were now, was just about perfect.
Skynet leaned back against her headboard of the bed, her breasts hanging loosely and free, the blanket covering her from her waist down, she was gazing out into the darkness of the bedroom but wasn't really looking at it.
'DEREK' SEARCH FILE COMPLETE.
112 POSSIBLE DEREKS IN THE RESISTANCE …
CALCULATING PROBABILITY THROUGH HIGHEST RANK …
21 DEREKS REMAINING …
CALCULATING KNOWN HIGHEST PROBABLE 'DEREK'
CALCULATE COMPLETE …
'DEREK REESE' - 56.73% PROBABILITY.
Even though it was all calculated guesses, Skynet smirked, it would make sense to her.
"Derek oh Derek, where are you." Skynet smirked, perhaps, if the High School search failed, she'd look for Reese, possibly he knew where Connor was.
What did she have to lose?
Jason's note.
Hey again everyone, okay just to clarify the events with the thieves is slight AU here, so just go with it if you can.
Now I'd like to apologise for any inaccuracies regarding Californian police prison layouts, I'm going by what I saw in "Born to Run" so sorry again.
I have a question for you all. I have read some other fan fictions that had Danny as a Gray and a bad guy, what do you guys think to my version of Danny, does it feel okay? Do you guys like it?
Anyway, further apologies for the delay with this story I realise I am very behind, I'll try and make it up to you.