Author's Note: Well here comes chapter 5, sorry it took a while, I've been kind of busy with work and school lately. Kane's big secret is out, but how will the others react to this shocking revelation? Read on to find out ;) Thank you guys so much for reading this far, I'm glad you all like the story. Thanks again to everyone who reviewed, it really helps me know if you guys like it and helps me determine what changes I should make so please, tell me what you think of this chapter. Well that's all I have to say, enjoy the chapter.

Additional Note: I also, as of the release of chapter 5, went back and made some changes to chapter's 1 and 4 so you may want to go back and read them again before you read this chapter. If you don't, then don't blame me if something doesn't make sense later.

Chapter Five: The Mission

2008: Connor Residence

Kane looked at the three around him, his face returning to normal. "I'm a vampire" he said as Sarah and John looked at him in shock. Cameron had adopted her blank robot face and was staring at Kane. She's probably calculating my threat level Kane thought as he waited for the others to respond.

John's thoughts immediately turned to the stories his mom had told him as a kid, when they were in the jungles of South America. He had thought they had just been stories, legends. He had never thought they could be true.

Cameron was indeed calculating Kane's threat level.

Calculating…

Insufficient Data…

Threat Level: Unknown

Suggested Action: Observe

Cameron realized she needed more information on this 'Vampire' in order to make an accurate threat assessment so she decided to observe for the moment, and make sure this vampire didn't attempt to harm John.

Sarah, however, had decided to take a more aggressive approach to the situation. She pulled a glock 17 pistol out of the back of her pants and pointed it at Kane's head. She was also the first one to speak. "That's impossible, vampires aren't real" she said.

Kane just sighed when she pulled out the gun. He had expected a reaction like this from her. "What more proof do you need?" Kane asked "you've seen my fangs, and you've seen one of my powers, what else do I have to do to prove it to you?" Kane thought for a moment. "Oh I know" he said as he thought of something. Then, faster than any human, or even any terminator would be able to do, he snatched the pistol from Sarah and pointed it at her.

Sarah was surprised by this movement and put her hands up almost automatically. Just as Cameron was about to intervene, Kane turned the gun around and handed it back to Sarah, who took it hesitantly. "Convinced yet?" Kane asked.

Sarah was about to respond when the front door opened and Derek ran outside with a beretta pistol in his hand. "What the hell's going on out here?" he asked when he saw the blood everywhere, then he saw Kane "and who's this?" Derek then pointed his gun at Kane, who slowly got up and turned to face Derek. There was a whooshing sound and the next thing everyone knew, Kane was standing in the same place with Derek's gun in his hand.

"Sergeant Michael Kane, Resistance special forces" Kane said as Derek stared at him, dumbstruck.

"How did you do that?" Derek asked.

"I'm a vampire" Kane said simply, then changed his face and flashed his fangs to make his point.

Derek instinctively backed up, then looked at Sarah. "Is that true?" he asked her.

Sarah nodded "apparently it is, he just healed a gunshot wound on John by making him drink his blood."

At the phrase "gunshot wound" Derek immediately looked serious. "Gunshot wound? What the hell happened to him?" He asked.

"Look we've obviously got a lot to talk about, but maybe we should go inside first" John suddenly spoke up, indicating to the rest of them that they were still sitting in the driveway.

The rest of them just nodded to this and got up to walk inside. Everyone had gone inside except for Kane, who stood just outside the doorway.

John turned and noticed Kane's behavior. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"I'm a vampire, I can't come into a human dwelling unless I'm invited in" he said. He raised his hand and tried to put it inside the door to prove his point. Right as it reached the doorway, his hand seemed to meet an invisible barrier and stopped.

"Really?" Sarah said thinking hard. Kane nodded.

"Well, aren't you going to invite me in?" Kane asked.

Sarah and Derek both looked like they thought it wasn't a good idea, and Cameron had her usual emotionless expression on her face.

John saw that no one else thought it was a good idea and decided to take matters into his own hands. "I invite you in" he said.

"John I don't think that's a good…" Sarah started to say, but stopped when Kane smiled at John and walked through the doorway.

"Thank you John" he said.

John turned to look at his mother and Derek with a serious expression on his face. "If he wanted me dead, then he wouldn't have saved my life a few minutes ago" he told them.

"Wait, wait, wait" Derek said "Is anyone going to explain why John's life needed saving in the first place?"

"That's one of the things we need to talk about" Kane suddenly spoke up.

Everyone turned towards him. "Well we're all ears" Sarah said.

Kane sighed and took a deep breath in preparation for his long explanation. "Ok first off, my name is Sergeant Michael Kane of the Resistance and yes, I am with the resistance" Kane started off. "I am also a vampire, as I have said and yes, vampires are quite real. As are werewolves, witches, ghosts, etc."

Kane paused to give them a second to take in this information. Sarah then spoke up. "If you're a vampire, then you drink blood right?"

Kane nodded. "Yes, I require human blood in order to stay at full strength."

"So that man they found drained of blood, that was you?" John asked, remembering the news story.

Kane nodded again. "An unfortunate incident, time travel made me inexplicably hungry and the man stumbled across me. I don't usually kill the people I feed off of, but I found the sudden hunger hard to control" he said. John just looked at Kane with an expression of shock and disgust on his face.

"So if you drink human blood, why are you on our side?" Sarah asked.

Kane just smiled. "Let me ask you something, why would I choose to work for a homicidal computer bent on the destruction of my best food source?" Sarah couldn't come up with a good answer to this, so she chose to say nothing.

"What is your mission?" Cameron finally asked.

Kane smiled again. "Ahh I wondered how long it would take you to ask me that, Cameron" Kane said. "My primary mission is to ensure the survival of John Connor…" Kane hesitated, unsure if he should say the next part, but decided he'd better. "… and Cameron Phillips." As predicted, this statement got a negative reaction from Sarah and Derek, while John and Cameron merely exchanged glances.

"Why Cameron?" Sarah asked as Derek looked like he wanted to yell about machines. Sarah looked suspiciously over at John and Cameron, as if trying to work out if there was something more going on there than just target and protector.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you that" Kane said.

A look of anger quickly flashed across Sarah's face. "And why not?" she asked in a slightly raised voice.

Kane just shrugged. "Future John told me not to. His exact words were 'don't tell them until they've figured it out for themselves'" he said. Sarah was about to argue when Kane held up his hand, indicating he would say no more on the subject.

Sarah gave Kane a look that said they were not finished with that conversation. "So how did John get shot?" she asked.

Kane was about to reply when John spoke up. "I had gone to Riley's house to make up some explanation about what happened in Mexico. Cameron insisted on coming with me, just in case. When we got there, we were attacked by some kind of female terminator" he said.

Cameron then continued the thought. "The terminator model was unfamiliar to me, but it seems to be the most advanced out of all the ones we have encountered so far."

Sarah turned to Kane. "Do you know something about this machine?" she asked him.

Kane nodded. "The T-X, advanced prototype" he said. "It is the most advanced and powerful terminator Skynet has created so far. Its primary function is to destroy other machines."

"So it's an anti-terminator, terminator?" John asked.

Kane nodded "that's about right."

"Do you know anything about it?" Derek spoke up.

Kane nodded again. "It has a metal endoskeleton, but a liquid metal sheath instead of skin. It's faster, stronger, and smarter than any previous design. It's also equipped with onboard weapons and nanotechnological transjectors, which allow it to control other machines, including other terminators" he looked at Cameron as he said the last part. "That's the main reason why Future John decided to send me instead of another terminator because, no offense Cameron, you wouldn't stand a chance by yourself against this thing." Cameron did not respond to this statement and instead remained with her blank terminator face.

"Jesus" Sarah said as she realized just how desperate the situation really was.

"So how do we kill it?" John asked Kane.

Kane looked at John, a sad expression on his face. "Honestly? I have no idea" he said "the T-X is built to withstand almost any attack, short of a vat of lava, I don't see how we can destroy it."

The others stopped to think for a few seconds. Sarah finally turned to look at Kane. "So what's your story?" she asked.

"Well, I was born in 1757, turned into a vampire in 1776. So physically, my body is 19 years old, but I am 278" he paused for a second to let that fact sink in, then continued. "I joined up with the Resistance in 2023 and was sent back in time in 2035."

"And what sort of powers does a 'vampire' have?" Sarah asked, still not fully able to believe that Kane was one.

Kane though for a moment. "Well, there's eternal life, obviously. We also have super human speed and strength, as well as senses several times better than that of a human." He let them absorb those facts for a few seconds, then continued to talk. "We do burn in the sun, although I have a daylight ring that lets me get around this" he said, holding up his hand with the ring on it for them to see. "We can only be killed by getting our head cut off, our heart ripped out, being burned, or of course, by a wooden stake to the heart. Anything else and we'll just heal up right away. Garlic, holy water, and crosses also don't work on us, but wooden bullets can hurt us, though they can't kill us. Oh yeah and we have the power of compulsion, which allows us to make humans think, say, or do whatever we want them to, though this power doesn't work on terminators" Kane said the last part with a hint of regret in his voice.

No one said anything for a while. Sarah, John and Derek were all thinking about what Kane had just told them, while Cameron's tactical systems were analyzing the data for the most efficient way to kill him if he became a threat. Sarah finally spoke up. "So is your only mission to protect John and Cameron?" she asked, still sounding suspicious as she said Cameron's name.

Kane shook his head. "No, I have other missions in this time, but I will save those for another day. It's getting late and John has been through a lot. He should go to bed." Kane said "I will explain more about my mission in the morning." Sarah had just realized how tired she was as well and didn't protest this.

"Cameron, you may want to stay with John tonight, to make sure he is completely better" Kane said with a knowing smile on his face "don't worry, I'll handle patrolling tonight."

"Don't you need to sleep?" John asked.

Kane shook his head. "No, not as much as you do. I'll be fine, don't worry about me" he said.

No one else said anything as everyone went to their respective rooms, with the exception of Cameron, who went to John's room. Sarah was too tired to protest this and went straight to sleep as soon as she got in bed.

When John and Cameron got into John's room, John sat down on his bed and motioned for Cameron to sit next to him, which she did. John turned to Cameron. "Did you see that look on Kane's face when he told us to go to my room?" he asked "it's like he knows about us."

Cameron considered this. "If he is who he says he is, then there is a high probability that he does. We should ask him about it tomorrow and see what he knows" she said. John nodded in agreement. Cameron then looked down at John's blood-soaked shirt. "How is your wound?" she asked.

"Gone" John replied, lifting his shirt up to reveal no injury where there should be a bullet wound. "It doesn't even hurt anymore, it's like magic."

Cameron examined the spot where the wound had been and could not find any trace of an injury. "Kane does have some interesting abilities" she remarked.

John nodded at this. He then stood up and pulled off his shirt and proceeded to find a clean one to wear for bed. "I still find this whole situation hard to believe. I always thought vampires were just a myth" he said.

"Yes, it is highly unlikely, but appears to be true. There is no other explanation for what we have seen today" Cameron replied.

As John finished putting on a new shirt, he noticed Cameron's own shirt had been partially burned from the plasma attack of the T-X. He mentally kicked himself for forgetting about that. "I almost forgot, you were hurt in the battle" he said. Cameron noticed he said 'hurt' instead of 'damaged' and that made her smile slightly.

"The damage is not severe. I'll be fine" she said.

John was unconvinced. "Well we should at least take a look at it" he said.

Cameron just nodded and proceeded to pull off her shirt, leaving her in just her pants and her bra. John blushed slightly at this. Cameron noticed this and took it to mean that he was embarrassed. "Why are you embarrassed John? You are my boyfriend, you are allowed to see me naked" she said. At this statement John blushed even more.

"Well yeah but we've been in a relationship for less than a day, it's too soon for us to see each other naked or do that level of intimate things. Things like that take time" John said to her.

"Oh, thank you for explaining" Cameron said, then frowned "then how will you help me tend to my injuries?"

John though for a moment then came up with an answer. "If you keep your pants and your bra on then it should be fine" he said then looked the damage. There was a mid-sized black burn mark on her stomach from where the plasma bolt had struck her. "Will this heal?" he asked her.

Cameron shook her head. "No, the burned skin will have to be removed, then new skin will grow back in its place" she said.

John frowned but went to get a knife. He came back a few minutes later with a combat knife and sat down next to her. He proceeded to delicately cut around the burned skin. Cameron watched him do this for a minute with a look of amusement on her face then said "you can cut harder John. I'm not made of glass, you won't damage me further."

John blushed a little at this but proceeded to cut faster and harder. About two minutes later, he had cut off the burned skin and put it in a plastic garbage bag he had brought with him. He examined his handiwork and saw that a roughly circular, six inch diameter section of her hyper alloy combat chassis had been revealed. He then took a roll of bandages and wrapped it around the exposed metal, concealing it from anyone who might see it. After he was done, he handed Cameron a new shirt he had grabbed for her, which she put on.

"Thank you John" she said with a smile and leaned over to kiss him. He kissed her back and they proceeded to make out on the bed. After about a minute of this, John and Cameron broke apart.

"You're welcome" he replied to her.

"You should get some sleep John, you've been through a lot" she told him.

"Only if you lie in bed next to me while I sleep" he countered.

Cameron agreed to this and they both got into bed after Cameron had turned the lights off.

"Goodnight Cameron" John said.

"Goodnight John" she replied and within a few minutes, John was sound asleep next to her.

Author's Note: Well what an interesting chapter, hope you guys liked it. Please review and tell me what you thought and what you think I could improve on, it really helps me. Thank you all for reading my story and for sticking with me so far.

Additional Note: In case you didn't see the note at the beginning of the story, chapters 1 and 4 have had some changes made to them so you may want to go back and reread them, thanks