A/N: Getting closer...
olischulu - Yes very insane, muhahaha!
shadow - Thanks!
TOK - Yeah that the way the Eradicator killed Allison was overly brutal and cruel. We'll see.
acer-sigma - You may be right.
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Reign of the Cameron: Chapter 19, by The Crusader
Originally posted on December 17th, 2009
More than ever she needed to find him. She had been through so much, and could only wonder what he had gone through. Whatever it was, he had done it without her. Alone. No, perhaps not. He may have had contact with the other Cameron, which was probably worse than being alone. She could only wonder what kind of an influence that other cyborg might have had on her John. And what if John Henry was lying and there was a third Cameron?
Cammy felt more insecure than ever before. Ever since her last battle, she had been wondering if she was, in fact the real Cameron. She was on her way now, back to Cadmus Labs, where she was built. Perhaps there she might find some answers. She was surprised to find that no Terminators guarded the front entrance. She assumed that after her escape, they would have tightened the security. As she got to the front door of this wide yet short silver building, she found that they had tightened the security. There was a retina scanner at the front door, a door which was too solid and thick, even for Cameron. Unfortunately the scanner was designed to scan both eyes at the same time. Cameron's face was starting to heal, her forehead skin had almost fully regenerated. But she still had not grown back her right human eye. But then again a human eye would not pass the retina test. She would have to cut out her other human eye to pass the test. This meant she'd have to wait even longer to having her skin back. She didn't like the way she looked without her skin, even though it didn't affect the way John felt about her. If she was actually the real Cameron.
Cammy soon remembered, however, that a retina scan would not scan her human eyes, but the cyborg eyes behind them. She could walk up completely regenerated and the scanner would still identify her as a Terminator. But that was just the problem. The scanner would remember her as the escaped TOK unit, and that would be the end of Cammy. Yet she had to get in there somehow, or she might never learn the truth. Her HUD ran through a list of options and she quickly chose one.
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A lone endoskeleton Terminator, armed with a plasma rifle, kept watch on top of a hill. It scanned the area for any signs of human life.
HUMAN POPULATION : 0.0
MISSION: PREPARE FOR INVASION OF PRIVATE CONNOR'S CAMP.
Yet as it turned around, the machine saw something else approaching.
IDENTITY: Unknown Human.
ENHANCE DETAIL...
IDENTIFICATION ERROR...
EXPOSED ENDOSKELATON UNDERNEATH SKIN
REVEALS SUBJECT AS CYBORG INFILTRATOR
ACTION: IDENTIFY SUBJECT'S MISSION
But as she ran forward, the endo Terminator soon realized that this machine was an opponent, not an ally. The female Terminator disarmed the endo. As the two of them grappled in combat, the Terminator realized what or rather who it was dealing with. It was the very same cyborg that escaped from Cadmus Lab, a nearby Skynet facility. This knowledge raised the threat level considerably, but the machine did not fight as well as expected. The Terminator had the upper hand, knocking her to the ground and then punching her while she lay there. Yet she also demonstrated great flexibility. She eventually recovered from the hits, grabbed the Terminator's punching arm and threw him right to the ground.
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Cammy got back up from the ground and continued the fight. Her head began to twitch involuntarily, but her HUD couldn't figure out what was wrong. Whatever it was, it seemed to have passed. She was on the attack again, throwing the Terminator around and pulverizing it with punches and kicks. Yet after awhile, she found herself once again glitching. As if her advanced combat files were somehow blocked. Once again it was Cammy who got thrown around and beaten. The Terminator retrieved its weapon and was about to fire, when suddenly Cammy once again reverted back to normal. She took the plasma Rifle right out of the attacker's grip, then she threw a swift roundhouse kick, knocking the endo to the ground. Cammy took aim with the Plasma Rifle and fired.
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Cammy headed back to Cadmus Lab, with a Terminator Skull in hand. The Terminator would be active soon, despite being separated from the body. Cammy felt that it was a smart plan, something that John would have thought of. But how would John feel if he knew that she was glitching? Of course it wasn't her fault. It was probably a mistake that John Henry made when creating her. But she couldn't trust John Henry to fix it. She had to find out the problem herself and fix it on her own. She really wished that John was here to help her.
The Terminator skull reactivated, allowing Cammy to enter Cadmus Lab. She took the CPU out of the Terminator skull and destroyed it immediately. Ordinarily she would keep it to see what the Terminator planned, but she was interested in only one thing right now, finding the truth about herself.
She was surprised to find that absolutely no one was present at this base. Even the equipment that created her, was gone. Perhaps Skynet was taking a precaution, in case it was ever attacked again? Or was this a trap?
Cammy went to the end of the large room and found a computer monitor. It seemed that this monitor contained the orders for any machines stationed at this base. When she realized what the order was, she knew she had to contact John. But there was no way to contact him, unless she did it herself in person.
And she only had 24 hours to find a solution.
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A/N: From here on in I give you a preview, a single quote, from somewhere in the next chapter. But I won't tell you who is speaking it or whom he/she/it/they are speaking to.
PREVIEW OF CHAPTER 20
"Before you go to your destruction, there is something I want you to know...you will be blamed for the deaths of all those Resistance Fighters."
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