Chapter 7- The Fly Trap Part. 2
John grabbed her hand quickly stepping out of the crapped small area and looked around. Pulling his jacket sleeve up to his mouth, he made sure to not inhale any of the deadly fumes into his lungs. Seen quickly went to her black bag as she looked at the window as the smoke provided the perfect cover.
She picked up the bag and placed it on her back like a backpack. Even though it weighted a tone, but she had to manage. These were weapons she couldn't leave behind or she have to start from scratch again.
With her gun already drawn, this was where the fun truly began. Seen opened the door as John followed right behind her heading down the hallway. Questions ran through John's mind of who was after them. It wasn't the machines as they would have just kick down the door and started spraying. The shooter was more human in trying to kill its prey cautiously unlike the machines. Looking at Seen's calm expression, she obviously knew who was after them. Unlike his nerves all over the place, she was in control of knowing where she was going. Now he started to see why she was a Sergeant in the Resistance Fighter's ranks.
Seen hurried to the end of the hallway as she heard multiple footsteps heading up the stairway. She looked down as they were almost to her floor. She looked at John as they started to run the opposite way quickly. Back up had arrived and in full force.
Looking behind him, Seen was right. John cursed to himself as the enemy had assault rifles and he had nothing in his hand, just his luck. He looked at Seen's backpack wondering what was in their. If she had a M16, it would be nice to pull it out at this time.
"Freeze!" One man yelled down the hallway.
Seen drew her gun towards them and fired off six shots. Quickly the men took cover, bending down low to the floor. John ran in front of her as the men fired their guns at them. John pushed the emergency exit door open on the opposite side of the building as Seen ran through it and closed it quick. The bullets hit the rusty steel door which made Seen and John step away from it hugging the walls, not trusting the door's capable strength to stop the bullets.
"I guess they are trying to kill us." Seen said surprised that they would fire at them.
She looked down the steps as the area was clear.
"Hurry down the steps! Don't stop!" She instructed John as he quickly headed down the eight flights of stairs. Seen took off her bag and dropped it over the railing. A loud thumb was heard at the bottom as Seen followed John down the steps, running at a much faster pace then him, as she skipped a few steps closing the gap.
The emergency exist door swing open as a man kicked it. The men looked down the steps seeing their target below them. One man takes his F90 and fires down the stairs as the bullets hits the railing and steps around their target. Luckily for John and Seen, the steps were to close together to not get a perfect shot as they hugged the wall avoiding the bullets.
Seen aimed her gun at the gunner as this time she wasn't going to pretend to miss them like previously. Calm and using her sniper training abilities, she aimed her gun and fired. The bullet landed directly on contact as the man firing the F90 went down, grabbing his leg in pain. Blood seep through his blue jeans as John looked on astonished.
He looked at Seen as he noticed her aim has changed from before. John wondered was the bullets she fired before was warning shots. That's when he realized she wasn't aiming to kill them but to slow them down to avoid killing them.
"Keep moving!" Seen shouted as they both continued down the stairway.
"Forget me! Get the girl!" The man whom Seen shot yelled out, ordering the others to follow the target.
Finally reaching the bottom floor, Seen quickly picked up her black bag and placed it back over her back. She used a strap to click it tightly around her chest to not fall over from the pounds of weight inside from her weapons.
They both ran out another emergency door as John looked both ways. It was clear as he started to run in the east direction.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Seen grabbed his arm stopping his pace.
"Not that way…this way." She guided him down the west direction of the alley as she looked at her digital watch as it read 1:20.
"Yes, yes I'm going to need back up now!" Ellison yelled on the phone looking down the street.
His jaw dropped as his eyes widen, stunned. Running across the street, he caught a glimpse of the suspect he's been trying to find. However, that wasn't what surprised him the most. It was whom she was running with; it was what the machine sole mission in traveling back in time was for, as he saw John Connor.
What was he doing with his suspect? Was it an accident? No, it couldn't be an accident as being in the FBI, things happen for a reason.
He was about to chase after them until he stopped. A black tented BMW car pulled up to an apartment building across the street. A young man, carrying a small duffle bag came out the building's front door. He looked around the area and went inside the car. The car drove off down the street in a hurry.
Ellison was baffled and then looked up at Seen's apartment wondering did the man ignite the explosion. "What the hell is going on?"
Staring at a chair repeatedly the entire period in history class, Cameron was uneasy of John's unknown where about. A shoot out hasn't erupted in the school which was a good thing because her kind loves to blow things up; she wondered did he cut class. What was the purpose of it? The only way she was going to get an answer was ask who he's been hanging out with in the past two periods. The bell ranged as it was a perfect time to start her investigation. She had to find John or his mother was going to give her an ear full.
She quickly walked down the hallway scanning every student that went by. Then she found one person that could give her some answers to her question. Stopping at his locker like a robotic soldier, Cameron stared at her future prom date.
Morris slowly looked to his right as Cameron gave him an impassive stare.
"Hey Cameron." He gave her a clueless look but a bit nervous as it was unexpected for John's sister to be at his locker.
"Have you seen John?" She asked flatly.
"No. He didn't even come to auto shop today." Morris said putting his remaining books in his locker.
Cameron saw a familiar face in the distance who she told John to stay away from. She left Morris with a bewildered look as she walked down the other side of the hallway.
Digging into her locker, Riley grabbed a book and placed it in her bag getting to her last class for the day. She closed her locker, but was startled.
"Jesus, you scared me!" Riley said wondering where she came from.
"I'm looking for my brother John, have you seen him?" Cameron asked bluntly.
Riley gave her a worried look. "He didn't get back yet?"
Her answer put Cameron on edge as she stepped forward coming closer to the young girl. Only Riley's book in her arm separated the two girls from touching one another.
"Back from where?" Cameron asked.
Her stare and proximity to her body scared Riley as she stepped back like a mouse trapped in a cage with a tiger.
Coming down the subway quickly, Seen saw two men still pursuing them as they were close by. John and her weave through the crowd of people trying to get to the next train scheduled to leave at any second.
Seen pressures John to pick up his pace as she moves him forward in front of her. The two men behind concealed their weapons inside their jackets to not cause a commotion and followed right behind them on their heels.
John and Seen burst onto the correct train platform and darted towards the train in their site. The train conductor recorded audio makes its last announcements to board the train. John cursed to himself as they weren't going to make it. Looking to his right, he saw Seen run past him at incredible speed like a professional track star as she went to the train first.
Before the doors could close, Seen stepped through it, jamming it which forced to open again. It was the opportunity they need as John quickly boarded the train bumping into Seen to stop his pace. They both looked behind them as the men were inches away from boarding the train. The automated system said doors closing. Almost in their grasp, one man reached out but was stopped by titanium doors as he ran right into them.
He saw his target just inches away as he banged on the door harshly, furious that he couldn't acquire it. His outrage brought attention to the passengers as one guy snicker about it, finding it amusing.
The deadly glare John saw in their pursers eyes, for once wasn't directed towards him, but at Seen. He wondered what she did to them exactly. Whatever it was, the train ride was long enough to explain herself, John thought.
One of the men pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number quickly. "Nicholas, she jumped the train. Get the men to the next station now!"
"On it." said Nicholas that portrayed Seen's false cousin. In a black car with his other partner driving, he typed on his laptop quickly getting the train routes using the internet.
Seeing students come out of the school, Sarah was waiting in the jeep for her son and his metal protector. She knew she was early but today she just wanted to get out of the house. She would have stayed if anybody was in the house. Derek was keeping tabs on Cyberdyne as their new engineer left the house telling her she needed to do something. Sarah wasn't sure what that meant but she hoped it wasn't too dangerous. She knew the engineer was different than Derek and far different in what she imagined the engineer would be. They couldn't afford trouble at this point. Maybe she should have explained that more clearly with the young girl. Young adults tend to do stupid things.
Puzzled, looking ahead as she sat up in her car seat, Sarah saw Cameron heading her way. Sarah looked at her watch saying half past one and then back at the metal machine. Cameron came to the passenger side, opened the door and went into the car.
"John's missing." Cameron said point-blank, not even looking at Sarah.
"What!" Sarah shouted as her eyes widen in shock. She prayed she heard Cameron's words incorrectly.
"John left at lunch and never came back."
"I thought you were watching him Cameron! How did you lose him?!" Sarah asked screaming furiously at her.
"John does these things." Cameron finally looked at her.
"That's your excuse?" Sarah asked as her words weren't comforting at all.
Sarah started to dial his cell phone number.
"He's not picking up his cell phone." Cameron assured her.
"We need to find him!"
"I'm well aware of the problem. We should head to Wendy's on Oarlock Street as our first stop." Cameron said monotone.
Not wanting to argue anymore, Sarah started up the car and drove away, praying that her son was safe or Cameron was getting dumped into hot melting lava to end her existence.
Seen moved to the back of the passenger train as she was looking around on the walls of the train. John followed her weaving through the crowd behind her as her large black bag wasn't making it easier. Actually it was making people irritated as John smiled to not make the passengers kill them.
Seen stopped at one of the back exist doors and eyed an emergency alarm to her right. John stood next to her and leans towards her to not cause a scene.
"Who were those guys? Why are they trying to kill you?" John asked still scanning the passenger train making sure nobody looked suspicious.
"The same reason why you're being chased," said Seen not directly staring at him. She walked in front of the emergency alarm clutch behind a plastic covering.
"We have to get off the train before the next stop or they'll put a bullet through both our heads."
Confused, John looked at her wondering did she know what they were traveling on. "How are we going to do that?"
John saw Seen take off one strap around her shoulder and brought the black bag in front, giving her access to open it. She unzipped it halfway and searched through it, moving parts of weapons to her guns. She took out a smoke grenade saying Fat Man II painted on it. John eyes widen seeing that description before and covered his mouth with his sleeve.
Seen pulled the pin on top of it and rolled it to the middle of the floor, landing by a young man's foot. It disbursed quickly as the smoke grenade filled the passenger train. People started to panic as some people were pushing on one another thinking it was a fire or worse a terrorist attack.
Seen hit the emergency alarm which alerted the conductor as red lights went off in each train carts. The conductor quickly stopped the train as the breaks sparked along the rails of the abrupt stop. The sudden stop made the passengers in all five train cart being pulled forward. Some passengers held onto the poles in the middle of the floor, others their seats, while the rare few fell on top of one another on the floor not able to catch their balance in time.
The conductor opened his door but couldn't go any further.
"The third compartment is on fire!" One man shouted seeing the smoke in the distance.
The conductor cursed to himself and went back into his booth. He had no choice at this point and opened all the doors on the train. He called it in quickly on his walkie-talkie of the sudden fire on his train making sure that Central stopped all train rides that could hit his passengers.
The passengers immediately jumped off the train and onto the track, watching both ways to not get hit by another train. John and Seen jumped off the train as John looked around at the chaotic scene as people on his train were coughing and trying to run for cover. Seen grabbed John sleeve jacket making him follow her and away from the scene as quickly as possible.
Nicholas and another guy with him was looking down the tracks waiting for the train to come. He looked at his watch every second wondering why the train was late if it left on time. His partner looked at him knowing something was wrong.
One Guard at the train platform walked by them as Nicholas heard a woman's voice over the walkie-talkie. It was a fire on the Gritten line subway train. The guard picked up the walkie-talkie as he ran up the steps coming towards the Central booth.
Nicholas looked at his partner and both started to run to the end of the platform. They jumped down and drew their weapons, heading towards the direction the train should be coming.
A few minutes in making their way down the train tracks, Nicholas saw the stopped train where their target was on. He cursed to himself and looked around, checking each person in the group quickly. His looked at his partner who was checking each passenger train. Checking one after another, he found each one empty already knowing they lost the target. He shook his head to Nicholas to confirm in finding nothing.
Nicholas smirked as all he could do was laugh at the situation, that neither of his paid combat military trained men couldn't capture one little girl. His employer was not going to be pleased with their failed efforts. Going to her in person was out of the question. He'll tell her over the phone to not end up dead like the others before him.
Coming into the house in a rush, Sarah saw Derek with a worried look. He gave Cameron a cold stare, who was watching the news station on TV, of the predicament they were in. It never failed how everything always became her fault. It was like a continued loop with her and it pissed him off. He wanted to kill her and hurry it up, he thought.
"Have John called in yet?" Derek asked.
"No nothing." Sarah said in a nervous rack. She looked out the window as it was already dark outside. This wasn't like her son. He would have called in if anything happened to him. Unless…no she had to put that thought in the back of her mind. She hoped her son remembered his training. No, she prayed that her son remembered his training.
"About early afternoon, on 61 Block Street in Los Angeles County, an apartment building caught on fire from a leaked gas line from the gas stove. However, the LAPD police department would have ruled the blast an accident but witness heard gun fire in the apartment building. In the past four years the high crime rate has risen in this neighborhood. In speculation of what the authority think, it was a turf war that got out of hand. This is channel nine news reporting back to you Jim."
Sarah curiously looked at the TV hearing the entire broadcast of the anchor woman. That building and neighborhood, red flags went up in her mind.
"Derek, where's Seen?" Sarah asked still focused on the TV screen.
"I don't know. I haven't seen the Kid since this morning." Derek answered, puzzled as her.
Sarah started to dial Seen's cell phone. Pacing back and fourth waiting for the phone to be picked up, she actually prayed she was with John. She needed something to think that her son was fine or she was going to lose it in a minute.
Her wishful thinking was crushed as Seen wasn't even picking up her phone as well. Now she had double trouble on her plate. Both John and Seen were missing. One could be killed by a machine while the other could be killed in a turf war. She told that child it was a bad idea to be in that hostel neighborhood. She cursed to herself as everyday was a new problem and she wondered how long she could keep this up before she break.
At the entrance of the walkway to the Connor's home, John and Seen stopped as they both looked into the windows of the house. John could see his mother furious expression. He would have called her but Seen insisted not too. This was going to go down ugly and he wished he wasn't here in this particular moment. They took a long time to come back to the house. It was apparently the plan to make sure they weren't being followed by the men Seen wouldn't talk much about.
"Look just let me talk. I'll take the blame." John said looking into the window.
"Your mother will kill you." Seen stated.
"It's my fault she's probably going crazy right now because I should had called in. If I went with the others…"
"It doesn't matter John," said Seen serious. "Your mother probably saw the news. She knows where I live. This is technically my fault. I should have dealt with the problem sooner. Let me take the fall. I've seen protective mothers of this time and it's not pretty. You'll understand later what I mean."
He looked away from her hating himself for this. But it was probably for the best, if she figured out his mother in a short period of time, lying was their best option.
Seen started to walk towards the door as John followed.
Cameron heard footsteps coming towards the front door as she placed the controller on the sofa and went to the door.
Sarah and Derek looked at her action and followed, knowing she heard something. Sarah only hoped it was her son and not a Terminator or the police.
Stepping into the house, Seen and John saw everybody coming towards them in a panic. Before the gauntlet was about to begin, Seen quickly put her black bag on the floor and walked in front of it to hide it from John's mother. She wasn't ready to reveal what was in her party bag.
"Where have you been John?!" Sarah asked almost in a yelling voice as she scornfully eyes Seen. "We kept calling you and you didn't answer?!"
"Because John was with me," said Seen stepping forward trying to bring the heated attention towards her. "And we ran into a little trouble on our way back. We couldn't risk calling you guys or the signal could have been tracked. It's my fault. I'm sorry I took him out of school."
Cameron immediately knew Seen was lying knowing John went with Riley to lunch. How she ended up with him she couldn't figure out. She wondered what the logic in taking the fall for him was. She rather kept her mouth shut until she heard Seen's full story.
"You took him out of school? And what trouble did you run into Seen!" Sarah asked coming closer to her ready to kill the girl for her stupidity.
Seen didn't flinch in Sarah aggressive approach to her. She stood firm as her eyes looked forward at the furious mother.
"We were being chased by some guys, but we're fine." Seen replied.
"John could have been killed or blown up." Sarah looked at her.
John glanced at Seen out the corner of his eyes as his mother did see the news of their destruction.
"Yeah I caught the news Seen," Sarah continued. "Luckily there putting it as a gang territory dispute. I'm going to say this once. Don't let it happen again or you better pray your mystery friends get to you first before I do. Don't you ever think you can do whatever you feel like it in this house. Are we clear?"
"Yes ma'am." Seen said giving a soldier response to their superior.
Sarah shook her head in disappointment and walked away from the group.
Cameron watched John's mother leave the room and then looked at her friend. She saw Seen do a quick gesture placing her finger to her mouth and winked at her. The hunch she had earlier about the false story she told Sarah was true. Cameron wanted to know who was chasing after them and why.
Because of the minimal bedrooms in the house, Seen had to bunk with Cameron in which she stayed in her room the night before. Since Cameron never slept in her bed, she found no need to use it as Sarah didn't need to buy another bed in the room.
Unpacking the weapons in her black bag, Seen spread them out onto the bed. She picked up a small black container, walked over to a dresser and placed it in the fourth drawer.
"I have to place these somewhere else." Seen said about the small container.
Cameron walked over to the weapons. She picked up a M16 and looked at the different accessories. In under a minute, she assembled it together as she placed a clip inside it, ready for action. Cameron knew Seen was always good at finding good quality weapons. If she couldn't find one she would build one like the plasma machine gun, called the Screaming Angel she help construct for the war against Skynet in the future.
Cameron looked at Seen as she loaded up her laptop.
"Why did you lie to John's mother?" Cameron asked curious. "I know you didn't take John out of school. He left on his own."
Seen started typing on her laptop.
"I'm good at taking the blame for others mistakes," Seen smirked at her. "Besides, I've noticed parents don't really get angry at a child that's not theirs."
"Are you sure? John's mother scolds me all the time." Cameron replied.
"Well, technically on your birth certificate you are her daughter under federal law." Seen chuckled as it was ironically funny in Sarah disliking machines.
Cameron gave her a blank stare as she didn't understand her humor. However, footsteps caught her attention towards the door. A light knock was heard at the door which was closed. Cameron placed the M16 on the bed and then looked at the door.
"Come in." Seen said still laughing inside that Cameron didn't understand the joke. But her smile vanished when she saw John's mother enter the room.
Sarah looked at the two girls curious of the awkward feeling in the room and then her eyes focused on Cameron.
"Can you give us a minute, Cameron?" Sarah asked politely.
Cameron halted her movements, wasn't sure Sarah was to be trusted left alone in the room with Seen. She could still sense the furious anger inside her even though Sarah tried to conceal it. Cameron looked at Seen as she gave a head gesture of a nod, telling her it was fine. Obeying, Cameron walked out of the room but kept in close range just incase.
Sarah closed the door behind her about to say what was on her mind for the past half an hour but paused. Giving Seen a puzzled look, she saw weapons laid out on the bed.
"Where did you get these guns?" Sarah asked. They weren't the typical weapons from off the streets but state of the art military standard weapons with acceptable accessories attachments.
"In my blown up apartment." Seen answered not being sarcastic but telling her the truth.
Sarah ignored how the answer came out, not wanting to get into another heated discussion. It was the reason why she came into the room, to talk to Seen, to make sure she understood the situation they were all in.
"I'm not going to apologize for earlier," said Sarah. "By all means you deserve it. I figured you been on your own for a long time. I'm not actually sure when you got here, but you're not use to rules I'm assuming. However, we do have rules in this house. If you're going to stay here, you have to obey them which are my rules. Future John gave you orders to take commands from the head in charge well that me. Gun fire doesn't happen unless I say so. You tell others, especially me, where you are at all times. Do not bring unnecessary wanted attention to this house. Last thing we can afford is us all in prison where will be sitting ducks to Skynet. One thing and for most, don't ever put John's life in jeopardy again. You want to be an idiot and get yourself killed, do it by yourself. You disobey those rules again, next time there will be consequences for your actions."
Sarah turned around and headed for the door finally getting that off her chest.
"John doesn't want to be the future leader you want him to be."
Stopping, Sarah turned around and looked at Seen surprised by her comment.
"I can see it in his eyes. He's no way ready to become the leader we have envisioned him to become," Seen looked at her laptop and started to type. "That type of mind set will get him killed."
Though Sarah liked to have the last word in a conversation but this time she couldn't respond to Seen's words. She knew and always knew in her heart that John never wanted to become the future leader of the Resistance. Ever since his father told her what her son's future will be, she trained him to become it, even if she had to force feed him. If a girl that only meant her son for almost two days could see this inside him, her words made Sarah even more afraid for her son's future.
Sarah looked at the engineer one last time and walked out the door.