Sarah and Destiny exited the tunnel and ended up in the middle of the war that Jesse and the others had warned about. They looked in amazement and horror and the scene unfolded to them. There were 3 aerial HKs and 2 ground HKs circling, searching for the escapee.

Destiny moved to go after them when Sarah pulled her back. "We're not going that way." Sarah said.

She nudged her and crept along close to the ground to avoid being spotted. Luckily, the Resistance were keeping Skynet plenty busy. The fire fight between them caused streaks of colored plasma flying in every direction. Destiny ducked down to avoid being shot as one flew over her head. Ducking lower she followed Sarah through the dirt and debris that had once been a life of pleasure and luxury. Sarah turned around to see Destiny staring at her surroundings of broken glass and ash.

"Come on, we need to go." Sarah said and nodded her head left.

Destiny looked back up at her. "What did It look like?... Before all of this?" She motioned her hand to show the surroundings.

Sarah looked around and back at her. "It was different.. Brighter. I'll tell you a story sometime, we need to go ."

They started back to the camp, slipping past Skynet's guards. They made it almost a mile to the camp when Sarah stopped in her tracks.

"What's the matter?' Destiny whispered.

"We're being tracked. You need to run." Sarah answered and pointed away from where she was staring. "Go...Now!" Destiny bolted east toward home and Sarah double checked her gun before creeping along to the west. She moved along slowly, listening for any sound. A quick shuffle of dirt to her side and she spun around on full alert only to find nothing.

Destiny ran east like she was told to but when she reached home, she froze in shock. The opening to the tunnels was uncovered and open already. "Oh damn it." She whispered.

Serrano Point

John set a number of plasma rifles on the table and looked around to the others in the room who were unloading. The base had been hit hard due to some pipsqueak who leaked info under means of torture. The source didn't tell who leaked it but John had figured enough to make a guess. Didn't matter much. The base was just a shortcut to get home and a refuge for a few thousand lost souls to hide away. The only loss was a few material things and the loss of five people whose survivors still waited for him to give them the news. In his mind, it was the worst part of the job. He moved away to do his job and left the unpacking to everyone else. He had stationed extra guards at the entrance since the two tunnel ways had been connected, he didn't want to take any chance.

Destiny had moved on to the other entrance, trailing slowly along trying to see if Sarah was anywhere near her. She heard a small crackle of a rock being moved over and footsteps. She crunched down and hide behind some rubble, looking out from the side. Her black hair seemed to stray across her face and she constantly pushed it away only to have it return immediately. She could tell someone was coming toward the base but she couldn't see much else. Desperately trying to see, she slipped her hair backed again."

Stupid hair!" she yelled.

Immediately realizing her mistake, she clasped both hands to her mouth in horror and she saw the person whom she now identified as a male terminator stopped in his tracks and looked in her direction. The machine moved closer in her direction and she frantically grabbed her plasma rifle and checked the available ammo in it. She had 3 shots left. She only hoped the T888 had less or was a terrible shot. If she missed, she'd be in trouble. She had no doubt that he would not miss if she had missed her first shot. 3 times to fire, one chance to terminate him. She peeked back around the rock, she didn't have much distance. She swallowed her heart, stood up and aimed. The terminator took aim with it's own weapon about the time she fired. A clean strike to the chip and it went down. She stared in horror at the machine on the ground and took a few deep breathes when she head faster footsteps. She ducked back down behind her hiding place and waited. The rush of footsteps got closer and were much softer than a terminator's. She put the gun back on her shoulder and stood back up as Sarah came into her view. She had stopped where the terminator had heard Destiny and she looked between the machine and the girl. Sarah let out of sigh of relief and smirked at Destiny.

Destiny lay in her room, curled up asleep. The HKs moving on the surface shaking the room violently. Destiny woke up out of breath and grabbed the gun under her pillow.

Voiceover By Sarah

"Midnight is the witching hour... If you believe that kind of thing, and most people won't admit it if they do.
Midnight is the time when a door opens from our world into the next and we are visited by dark spirits of the shadowlands. The Incubus. The Succubus. The Old Hag. Visitors are known by many names but each story bears the same marks.
The demons come after midnight and the first three hours of the new day, when we are alone and vulnerable, deep asleep and helpless. When we cannot move. They lay on us, press on us, suffocate us, take from us what is most precious. Our lives, our love, our sanity... Our sleep.
If you believe in that kind of thing."