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Chapter 10- Mission part 2
Chestnut eyes focused on a computer screen watching the rapidly fast images searching through California DMV database. Cameron tilted her head blankly staring at the screen, unsure what it was looking for. Who was the person it was trying to find? Using a program to search through a database on its own, this had to be Seen's orders. Her friend was looking for somebody in particular and she wanted to know who.
The front door slam as Cameron looked up directly at the ceiling. She heard footsteps heading outside as her head shifted to the small square window the basement only had. John's uncle was heading to the truck. Where he was going she didn't care. However, that changed quickly when she saw Seen carrying a black bag in her hand and stepped inside the truck with him. This struck her interest from the two Resistance Fighters usual actions as she watched the truck drive down the gravel driveway.
Using a zipper to zip up his green jumpsuit, Derek surveillance his surroundings knowing they were on enemy territory. One false move could either end their lives or place them in federal prison. He had to be vigilant from the words choices interacting with the employees of Cyberdyne or any one of them could be suspicious of their actions and call the security team. Being cautious and careful was a must for this mission to become a success. With the preparations he made this could be their only chance to stop Skynet once and for all.
Looking at his partner acquiring what she needed for the mission, he watched her place her hair in a ponytail and place a green hat saying 'Cyberdyne Maintenance Team' on her head to conceal mostly her facial appearance. Her look was still young and she didn't need security to run a check on their fake IDs. Thinking about this mission, Derek was lucky she wasn't nervous about this mission as he saw the focus in her eyes in accomplishing the objective. For some reason, this reminded him of Kyle at her age before he lost him to the machines in the future.
Derek placed his gun and extra two clips in his jumpsuit deep pockets as Seen carried the black bag that held there toys of weapons in it. Taking a second to calm their nerves, their stern eyes glanced forward; they were ready to infiltrate Cyberdyne.
They walked to the side of the building that Derek has been monitoring since his last few visits. Both of them appeared as if they were ready to come into work and start their shift which was at nine o'clock. Derek opened the door as Seen followed behind him letting him lead the way since he knew the vicinity better then her.
A young guard in a booth behind bullet proof clear view doors was listening to his radio while eating his dinner and reading a magazine. He smirked of a joke he just read as he drunk some of his bottle soda. The guard saw two janitors come his way as he placed the magazine down an inch from his vision. He saw the male janitor's bright smile outside the booth. Derek was about to say something, but heard a high pitch noise as the door unlocked. Unsure what just happen Derek gave Seen a puzzled look, as they both walked through the doorway.
Heading down the hallway, Seen wanted to know what the discomfort look Derek glanced at her previously was.
"What's wrong?" Seen asked. She hoped nothing was wrong out of the ordinary from his original plan.
"It took me two hours to come up with a story to get us in here." Derek said feeling rather disappointed at the useless effort.
Seen smirked as she thought it was something else. "Never know when you'll need it Lt."
Searching around the place, they only had a little information on the design from the building. The large hallways were proof that this place was going to be a rat maze if they didn't acquire a map.
"This place is pretty big." Seen signified as she checked every aspect of the walls while walking down the hallway.
"Let's find the Turk and get out of here. This place puts me on edge." Derek instructed then saw Seen eyes wondering around the building. "What are you looking for?"
"Searching for a map of the building. They always have one somewhere on a wall from these business buildings for employees not get lost." Seen said.
Near an elevator down the hallway she saw it in the distance.
"Here we go." Seen walked towards the elevator followed by Derek.
Next to the elevator was a miniature map of the entire building. Both Resistance Fighters study it quickly planning there next move.
"Wait, B3 is not located on the map," said Derek bringing it to Seen's attention. "The janitor that I took the IDs from said that the building had three levels below the building for security purposes. He said the engineers were conducting a secret project on level B3."
"Then we're heading down there." Seen said digging in her black bag cognizant the level exists.
She took out C4 charge and switched on the detonator which alerted Derek's confusion. Seen placed it inside a steel trashcan. The half symmetrical top of the trashcan enshrouded the C4 for other employees to not acknowledge the explosive device.
"What are you doing?" Derek finally asked.
"Back up." Seen said and hit the elevator button on the wall as it opened.
By Derek taking the identification cards from the actual janitors, this granted them the access to level B3 by swiping the cards on the key pad inside the elevator.
Finally making there way towards there destination level B3, both the Resistance Fighters halted there position coming off of the elevator. Employees populated level B3 as if it was normal daytime business hours. Now the mission became complicated, Derek thought.
Disguised in janitor uniforms was finally coming into affect, as Derek went to a trashcan and grabbed the trash bag that was inside it. Helping him, Seen constantly looked around the hallways wondering where the secret project was being held. Was it down the north, west or east wing. They had come to a fork in the hallway as Derek noticed the predicament they were in. As Derek was done placing a new trash bag in the trash can, Seen placed another C4 inside it and continued to head in the north direction as that hallway presumably had more volume than the other two.
"I guess blowing the place up is not an option anymore." Seen said.
Derek looked at the young teenager remembering her pervious actions. "What are you doing then?"
"You'll see."
"I think I don't," said Derek as he still searched through the hallway checking every room that was visible to see through the windows and door windows as well. "There's only one thing computer engineers are gathered in one spot. The Turk is nearby. I can feel it."
The racks of computers in each room made it difficult to determine where the Turk was stashed. Luckily, Derek was familiar what it looked like from Andy Goode's presentation at the Chess competition a few months back.
"You see anything?" Derek asked as she was the engineer in which was eighty percent of the reason why he brought her on the mission. Judging from her past actions in structuring the Connor's house like at Tech-Com, Seen should know what to look for better then him in finding the Turk.
"Look for large servers." Seen said as she looked through each room on the other side and also double checking Derek side incase he missed something. At this critical point in the mission, they couldn't afford errors.
It was then that it hit her fast like a shockwave. Heartbeat rapidly increased, body felt irregular as her surroundings started to quiet around her. Her body reaction started to focus on something specific in the vicinity that her eyes weren't fixated upon. This was a clear sign that a machine was in the area or, as Seen looked at a double bolted door with a security access pad, she just found the Turk.
Yawing in his chair switching channels on the multiple security cameras in a room, one guard noticed a person on the B3 floor. Judging from the person's appearance, it was a woman. He changed the direction of another camera which was closer to the security door and enhanced the zoom to get a clear image of the woman. However, it wasn't a woman but a young girl. Confused, he wondered how she gained access to the level. They only had two females in janitor positions at the job. One was African-American and the other was Caucasian in her mid thirties.
"Hey Jim, somebody bring their daughter into work or something?" He asked.
Jim, who was watching his favorite sitcom Taxi, felt annoyed that his friend was bothering him.
Not glancing in his direction when he asked that bizarre question, he said, "At this time no. And no children is suppose to be down their anyway. Maybe you're seeing things Mitch."
"Well there is now."
Dubious, Jim finally looked at Mitch as he saw the camera video. Surprised, it was a girl and it wasn't Brenda.
"Let's go." Jim ordered and left the room with Mitch to investigate the issue in a hurry.
"Hey Kid there's severs everywhere, which ones do you look for?" asked Derek still looking into the rooms. However, he didn't hear a word from his comrade. "Kid?"
Derek looked behind him as he saw Seen standing at a door.
"Kid?"
Though it wasn't her name but it was a nickname the other Resistance Fighters in the E.R.T. called her that stuck with him because of her age.
The way she was mesmerized towards the door put Derek on edge. It was like she was captured in a trance as she wasn't responding to his call. This was going to bring attention as he eyed the camera pointed directly at her. He told her to keep it moving and not bring attention to themselves. Noticing that camera positioned a different direction a few seconds ago, they may have caused suspicion by her standing in one spot.
"What's the matter?" Derek said rushing over to her side.
"Something's behind here." Seen said pointing to the door.
"How do you know?"
Seen pointed to the security pad next to the reinforced steel door. It was the only door with a high level security coding pad than the regular card pad as this one required a thumb print. Right away Derek was on the same page, understanding her silent body language.
"Can you open the door?" Derek asked.
"Yes."
Seen glanced at a young man coming down the hallway as Brian was walking towards there direction. Derek saw the young man and the security card on his keychain filled with other keys. Understanding her answer, both Resistance Fighters began to blend in just like their job description said on their clothing.
Still having the trash bag in his hand, Derek placed it on the ground and started fumbling with his keys trying to pretend he was busy. Seen stood close to him acting as if she was assisting him, watching Brian stop directly at the door she was fixated upon a second ago.
Having a cup of coffee in one hand, Brian used his other hand and grabbed his security card. He swiped it through the pad and placed his thumb on the security pad. It said 'Access Granted' as the door unlocked. He sighed as it was late and he wanted to go home. Unfortunately his slave boss needed the project done before next week. He had no time to sleep or his double paying job will go to somebody else as this would ruin the project he's done so far.
Eyes widening in fear, the cup in his hand fell to the floor as the coffee splashed on the ground. Body trembling, Brian felt something sharp pressed against his skull.
"Scream and I'll shot," said Derek holding a gun at the back of his head with a silencer placed on it. "Walk."
Both men walked forward as Seen was behind them checking both ways down the hallway before entering the room.
"I don't know what you want. I have nothing of value. Please! Please don't kill me!" Brian pleaded shaking like a leaf of the many scenarios if this ended badly.
"Keep pleading and I might." Derek said grudgingly feeling no sympathy for being one of the people that will bring about judgment day, unless he prevents it.
Coming into another room, it looked more like an interrogation room but without the two way mirror as it leads into the main computer room. In shock, both the Resistance Fighters knew this was the room from the different layout from the others.
Unlike Seen, Derek saw the devil infant machine placed in the middle of the room. It was connected to other computers around it in a circle like an operating table. Next to it was four large towering eight foot tall servers connected to the other computer equipment in the room and directly plugged into the Turk.
"What the hell are you doing to that thing?" Derek demanded coming closer to the window in repulsion.
"I-It's the new project for our new manager. P-Please! I just work here!" Brian pleaded again feeling the angered tension from Derek that he may pull the trigger any moment.
"What type of commands are you feeding it?" Seen asked never seeing the infant Skynet before.
Being around the early version of Skynet she couldn't pinpoint exactly what her intuition was telling her. On one half it was saying to destroy it to kingdom come, but on the other side it's saying to run away from this place. What did it all mean? Why was her other half saying to run away when her true goal was to destroy Skynet. This wasn't making any sense.
Trying to figure everything out, Seen looked at Brain frighten expression and then at the Turk. Then behind her as something was off. Why would Skynet leave itself defenseless?
"I don't care what it's being fed, open the door," Derek ordered as his patients ran out. "Will place the C4 and get out quick."
"W-W-Wait, what? Are you guys'…terrorist or something?" Brain asked.
"Open the door now!" Derek shouted.
Seen heard footsteps coming their way. She went out the door and saw guards heading towards them turning the corner. The mission was compromised.
"We have to leave now!" Seen said in a haste manner and took out her gun with a silencer attached to it.
"Are you crazy?! The Turk is right there!" Derek looked at Brain serious. "Open the door!!"
Seen pointed her gun down the hallway and fired off four shots as the bullets hit the wall close to the guards' face. It was a warning if they took another step towards there location she will kill them. Quickly they ducked for cover while drawing their handguns. They fired back as it now turned into a shoot out. Seen went back into the room for cover as the guards were very well at aiming. Jim quickly got on his Walkie-Talkie to call for back up signaling it was a code red.
"Lt. we have to go! Even if we destroy the Turk, it's hooked up to the main mainframe now. They could have already transported Skynet somewhere else and we're left staring at the husk." Seen stated.
It wasn't an answer to save there own lives. It was the only theory she concluded from assessing the entire situation from this point. The way it was set up and knowing who was truly completing Skynet, the Turk in front of her was a double. That was what her intuition was telling her. That's why her intuition was saying run away because it was a trap. It was a trap to capture her by pulling a suicidal mission in which Derek was following. If she destroyed the Turk by trapping themselves inside, the person after her wins. They would be dead and Skynet would still be alive unscathed.
The alarms in the building went off.
"Lt. we have to abort the mission now!"
Contemplating everything in his mind of what Seen was telling him, what if she was wrong and this was Skynet. But what if she was right? It was a toss up. Derek cursed to himself as time was ticking. Guards were going to be swarming all over their position in a matter of minutes. He was the leader of the mission and had to make a decision quick.
Glaring at Brain furiously, a harsh hit struck the young man's head as he fell to the floor unconscious.
"Let's go." Derek said.
Seen went to the side of the door, and quickly glanced out. She saw the guards coming closer to them cautiously as they haven't heard gun fire in thirty second. Stopping them in their tracks, Seen fired two shots. Each of them struck the guards thigh as they fell to the ground in pain, holding their gunshot wounds.
As the guards were on the ground disabled, Derek and Seen ran towards them. To make sure the guards wouldn't do anything stupid by grabbing their weapons, and making sure Derek doesn't kill them, Seen pointed her gun at them as a warning not to fulfill their intentional actions. Jim looked at the little girl, as he put his hands up while Mitch was still holding his leg in pain, unconcerned of the two intruders.
Running away from the guards, the two Resistance Fighters almost made their way back towards the elevator before reinforcements arrived. Coming to a corner of the hallway, Derek halted their position using a hand gesture hearing movement ahead. He poked his hand out but saw four guards running down the hallway, guns drawn coming directly towards them. Pulling his head back quickly, Derek cursed to himself looking down all three hallways of nowhere to go.
"Our exit is blocked. We're trapped." Derek said looking at Seen who was replacing the magazine to her gun.
Taking an item out of her pocket it was a small detonator as Derek curiously looked at her.
"We're never trapped when you have C4." Seen said and pushed the black button on the detonator.
In four locations around the building in trashcans including the one next to the elevator where the men ran past it, the C4 goes off. The high blast knocks the men to the floor from the intense force directed behind them. Immediately the smoke alarm and sprinklers goes off to control the fire in the building. Employees started to flood the hallway trying to escape the building.
Right away Seen concealed her weapon and forced Derek to move with the small crowd. The employees that were hiding inside there work areas from the shooting, was trying to escape the building from the fire. Eyes veering down the hallway, Seen saw an exit on the opposite side of the elevator the employees were accessing.
Upon reaching the door, one of the guards that was affected by the blast saw the two intruders about to escape. He drew his gun aiming it directly at Derek's back.
"Lt.!"
Seen shouted watching the guard actions. Unsure what she was shouting about, Derek's body was pushed to the side as he went down to the floor. The guard fired but instead of hitting Derek, the bullet hit Seen as it grazed her right shoulder. Seen fired her gun at the man and shots him in his right arm as he grabbed it in pain immediately dropping his weapon.
Collecting himself, Derek went to Seen's side looking at her wounded shoulder as blood began to seep out of it.
"You okay?!" Derek asked frantically.
Holding back the pain, Seen gave her commanding officer a nod. "Just a flesh wound. We can't stop."
"Come on!"
Derek opened the emergency exit door heading for the outside to escape this place. With Seen's C4 plan, the entire building was evacuating which provided the perfect cover as people flooded the lawn escaping away from the area. If the building wasn't populated with employees they would have been already captured or dead for a failed mission.
Eyes' wondering around the house as it was quiet; Sarah walked out of her bedroom on the first floor and looked up at the wall. The clock on the wall signaled it was almost midnight and the soundless house was quiet for almost two hours. Ever since Seen joined the team, the house was almost alive twenty-four hours with somebody doing something, mainly Cameron and her. This worried her realizing neither Derek nor Seen come back from the hardware store.
Maybe they did when she went to sleep. She prayed they were in their rooms as she headed up the steps. She sighed as she looked at an empty bed in Cameron and Seen's room. She cursed to herself and then went to Derek's room being the smallest in the house as it was a nursery before. She touched her head forming a headache as it was empty too. She was going to kill both of them knowing their doing something unauthorized. It didn't take a racket scientist to figure it out.
She came back down the steps and went into her room. She grabbed her cell phone on her dresser and called Derek. Pacing back and forth she finally heard Derek's answering machine. She closed the phone and called Seen's cell phone. It was the same results as Seen didn't have an answering machine but just a beep noise signaling to leave a message.
Annoyed, agitated and worried, Sarah walked out her room as she was going to try to search for them. She didn't want to alert her son and hoping she found them first before something else will.
About to head for the door, she glanced in the living room twice as she wasn't their in the beginning.
"Have you seen Derek or Seen?" Sarah asked John's protector as she was looking out the window patrolling the house during this time.
"No. They haven't come back yet." Cameron answered.
"And you didn't think that was suspicious." Sarah said coming towards her as this type of behavior irritated her about Cameron.
"Yes. I saw Seen leave with a black bag and I also saw Derek talking to Seen at school today."
Sarah eyes widen in shock as she hoped they didn't do what she was thinking after she told Derek to hold off until they had more information.
Power walking into the building furious as an egg could fry on her head, Weaver looked around her building as firefighters, police and Cyberdyne's security guards were having a conversation with one another figuring out what happen from the witnesses. Weaver didn't need unnecessary attention brought to her company. Her employer wasn't going too be pleased with this. She had to contain it fast before the media got involved into this.
"What happened?" Weaver asked her top security in charge of the building.
"Two intruders, dressed in janitor clothing infiltrated the building. One of the lab techs named Brian Pitt said they wanted the project you were working on and to blow it sky high when he was held at gun point. Lucky we came in time to turn their mission into a failure. Would have had them if they didn't set explosive charges concealed in trashcans at different points in the building. We're trying to keep the police in the dark by holding the actual feed from them, only showing them what they want to see." The guard explained.
"Really?" said Weaver thinking it was a little too late for that.
She shook her head in frustration and pulled out her cell phone from her coat pocket. She started to walk away from the guard making her call wondering how she was going to salvage the damage. She needed real back up as she wasn't going to be pleased about the news. Before she could walk away, Weaver turned around and looked at her top security guard.
"Oh by the way Glen."
"Yes ma'am."
"You're fired." Weaver said and then walked towards the elevator door leaving him speechless and dumbstruck.
Silently walking into the house, like teenagers coming home from a party they weren't suppose to go in the middle of the night, Derek and Seen hoped nobody noticed their absence. It was dark as Derek didn't want to awaken the woman in the other room, especially her since the master bedroom was on the first level from the house design. He knew the machine noticed them even though he didn't see her in the usual place in the living room. However, he could count on Seen to control her mouth in not to discussing the matter to Sarah. That was their main goal since the mission was a failure, to veil every information and evidence from Sarah.
A light comes on in the dining room as this halted the movements from Derek and Seen. Derek sighed and cursed to himself. Slowly he looked in the dining room/kitchen area. He saw the furious woman sitting in a chair, arms folded, blazing daggering eyes that could scare off a male lion, directed at the two Resistance Fighters. Seen saw this look many times from General Neil in disobedient soldiers among the lower ranks as she took a step back behind Derek. Why was it always her in these predicaments, she thought.
"Where have you two been?" asked Sarah in a settled voice keeping her temper in check before she awaken the entire neighborhood.
After answering that question, she was confused from the odd clothing they were wearing. Not only did it leave her puzzled but zeroed in on Seen's right shoulder. It was blood as her eyes widen.
"What the hell happen Derek?" Sarah asked, worried if Seen was hurt as her mother instincts kicked in.
She immediately went over to her wounded shoulder. The commotion caught the heighten sensitive hearing of John's protector as Cameron came down the steps.
"It's fine." Seen told Sarah as she was expecting the bandage around the wound.
This also made Seen uncomfortable the way Sarah was treating her like a child. It was something new she didn't like to adjust to in the past of mothers' overprotective behavior for children and teenagers in this time.
"Fine. Yeah right. It looks like a bullet wound to me," said Sarah evil eyeing Derek. "What did you do Derek?"
"Went for the Turk, mission failed, plain in simple." Derek said leisurely. He hated having to report to her every five minutes.
"Just plain in simple Derek." Sarah mocked him. She was about to snap of his untailored attitude which could of killed Seen. The wound on her shoulder just didn't bother him as if it was fine.
"What were you thinking Derek?" Sarah asked scathingly.
"Hey what's going on?" asked John who was woken up by the disturbance as he was on the staircase. Puzzled, he glanced at Derek and Seen. "Why do you two look like school janitors or something?"
Not to worry her son already knowing Cameron was in the room, Sarah eyes fell on Derek solely.
"Cameron, patch Seen up now." Sarah ordered not even looking at the machine.
Seen didn't want to leave Derek behind to face the furious woman alone but she noticed that John was in the room, and answering a hundred questions she was not in the mood to replay.
Seen went up the steps as Cameron followed behind her. They both went past John. The blood on Seen's clothing caught his attention as he looked at Derek, his mother, and then back at Seen heading up the steps.
Wasting no time, John went straight to the bathroom and into the closet, retrieving the emergency First Aid kit. His mind was starting to understand the situation but wanted to know what actually happened. Did they go on a mission without telling him? From the commotion apparently his mother wasn't notified either.
Hearing the movements upstairs, Sarah still had her attention on Derek but knew John was distracted by Seen's bullet wound to proceed with the conversation.
"Are you actually insane? You infiltrated Cyberdyne without telling me, not only that you included Seen into your batched simple plain. You both could have been killed." Sarah stated.
Derek was annoyed to no end how Sarah was conducting her ways in dealing with the Turk. For once he was going to express it.
"We're soldiers," said Derek staring at Sarah. "She's a soldier. I went on a chance and I took it!"
Derek shook his head as if this was worth his time explaining it all to Sarah. He walked passed her heading towards the steps then stopped.
"Stop thinking Seen's a child. She's a Resistance Fighter, not a child that needs to be cuddled like some of us in this house."
Sarah stopped a few meters from him, irritated by that comment. She knew who he was directing that remark too and it insulted her.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Derek turned around, sternly stared at Sarah. "You know what it means. Besides, future John didn't mind seeding the Kid out on missions far more dangerous then this one, and that was at the age of twelve. There's many more just like her fighting a war they were born into and destruction is all they see every second they close and open their eyes. A world you better pray you'll never see."
The words he was uttering she tried not to image in her dreams. She noticed it when she looked at Seen, always working in bringing down Skynet, she wanted to ignore it. She wanted to ignore that Seen was a Resistance Fighter. It was a fraction of the reason why she wanted her to attend school, to feel that her life wasn't always in destruction.
Although she felt sympathy towards Derek's decision but it didn't give him the right to leave her out of an important mission such as this.
"Next time you want to go on a mission you better inform me and not leave me in the dark thinking of the worse. You make a stupid decision like this again, I'll just shot you in your leg, and then maybe you can stay still for once." Sarah said giving him a disapproval look.
She walked passed him heading up the stairs to check on Seen as Derek scornfully watched her.