Destiny walked down the tunnels back to the main part of the camp. It was quiet again, like it always is after a big loss. She sat against the wall, watching the commotion going on. Audrey followed her at a distance and watched her from a few feet away.
Destiny sat on the floor and grabbed a plasma rifle from on the shelves. She started taking it apart and cleaning it. Sarah walked down the tunnels to the main area and checked the guns like normal. She looked over at Destiny who finished cleaning the gun and assembling it.
"She gets that from you, you know." John said as he snuck up behind Sarah.
Sarah laughed and turned to him.
"Right, blame me for passing on genetics." Sarah smirked.
A German Shepherd rushed up to Destiny and pawed her knee, asking for attention. Destiny pat the dog and rubbed its ears. "Heya, Sarge."
The dog turned from Destiny to Audrey and began growling and barking at it. "Good dog." Destiny muttered.
Sarah looked between the scene with Sarge and Audrey to John. "You didn't, did you?" Sarah asked.
"She left me no choice."John answered.
"You hated that part of your life." Sarah protested.
"Yes, but it did keep me from dying."John retorted.
"And what about the kind of life she's expected to have while being watched at all hours of the day?" Racheal piped up.
Sarah and John turned to her.
"Well." Racheal began. "She's not going to go out during the day she's not that crazy. It's not like she's got somewhere to go then. Just have the machine watch her while it's night. Besides, she still has the tracker."Racheal finished.
Sarah nodded. "She's right."
"Mom, you're supposed to take my side." John whined.
Destiny took her opportunity to leave. Audrey moved to follow her when Racheal stuck out her hand.
"Give her some time alone."
The machine seemed to understand and stayed were she was, watching Destiny with curiosity. Racheal turned to look at John. She sighed, shook her head and walked down another tunnel back to the main part of the base.
John looked around shocked. "What is everyone against me now?"
Destiny walked down the halls, mumbling. She stopped midway through and started to pick at the top of the watch. She chewed on the face of the watch and pulled it off. Underneath it were the gears and wires plus a small chip that seemed out of place. She replaced the top and took the tracker and dropped the chip on the floor. Destiny stepped on it and smeared it across the concrete floor.
"Track me now." She smirked.
The red dot on one of the screens in the main command room suddenly vanished. The soldier monitoring the feed, immediately paged Connor and his superior officer.
"Uh, Sir. I think something's up."
"What's the matter?" His superior officer asked.
"Connor's daughter; Her tracker just went offline. I think there's a problem in the connection or something." First. Lt. Marks answered.
His superior officer, Dyson argued. "Perhaps the girl is on the run again, she seems to get enjoyment out of it… call Connor. Tell him, she's on the run again"
Marks nodded and moved to radio Connor. John answered his radio to his assistant Captain Waters.
"What is it now, Waters?" John asked still annoyed from his earlier talk with Racheal and Sarah.
"Sir, the prisoner from a few nights ago broke back into to Century and is freeing the others. They are requesting back up from us." Waters reported.
"Then give it to them. Send in 132 SOC , Perry's division. Whatever they need." John answered and radioed out.
Destiny took off again down the tunnels and up one floor. She made it to the outside door and opened it. Standing at the door was a T888. Destiny shrieked at the top of her lungs.
"Metal!" She turned and ran back down the tunnels till she was 100 ft. from the machine when she pulled her 9mm from the back of her pants and shot the machine 3 times on the left side of the head, the nose and its right eye.
The shots forced its head upward and Destiny reloaded. Her third shot took out its right eye then it stabilized its head . It looked at her with its one eye. The machine's HUD read her face and brought her profile to its vision.
"Destiny Connor"
"Threat Level: Minimum "
"Objective: Terminate"
The machine raised its gun to shoot her between her eyes as Derek and Kyle jumped out from the right intersection of the tunnel and started shooting the terminator in the back of the head. Destiny shot the machine again in the left eye. She had aimed too low and missed it. The machine flung her against the wall, knocking her out cold.
Sarah popped out from the opposite intersection behind Destiny. She fired at the terminator with her plasma rifle, hitting it just above the chip. She kept firing a steady stream at its legs till it went down. Sarah stopped shooting it and looked down at it to see if it was still active.
The T888 lost its legs and started crawling toward Destiny when Derek ran up to it and hit it in the head with the butt of his rifle. Kyle ran over to Destiny and checked her pulse. Sarah set her gun down and helped Derek open its port and remove the chip. Sarah stuffed the chip into her pocket and went over to Destiny.
"Is she okay?" She asked Kyle. He looked up at Sarah as she bent down to the floor.
Derek moved over to Destiny.
"Is she alive?" He asked .
"Kyle?" Derek asked again and Kyle looked away from Sarah to Derek.
"What?" he asked somewhat annoyed.
"Is she okay?" Derek asked again.
"She's alive but she's going to have one hell of a headache when she wakes up." Kyle said and lifted Destiny up.
They walked back to the main command post of the base. John was already monitoring the security feeds when he saw them coming. Racheal ran out of one of the offices and out to where they were. She stopped when she reached them and looked alittle taken back. Destiny was covered in bruises and was barely breathing.
"She's better than she looks." Sarah said.
"What happened?" John asked, walking up.
Racheal motioned for Kyle to follow her to Destiny's room and Sarah trailed behind them.
"Well, Sir, A T888 followed some humans to the opening. I'm guessing…" Derek Said.
"You're guessing?" John interrupted.
"Yes, Sir. We only heard her scream and when we got there, the machine was already in the tunnels and was about to kill her."
John stood there nodding. Sarah, Kyle and Racheal came back to the main room. Sarah reached down in her pocket and pulled out the T888's chip. Marks plugged it in the systems. John sat behind the computer and brought its memory up to the screens on the wall. They rewound it to the part where it brought up Destiny's profile. John slowed it down to frame by frame and sighed deeply.
"Marks."
" Sir?" Marks answered John.
"Find Audrey and bring her here." John ordered.
Marks nodded and turned around, running straight into Audrey. He jumped back and everyone in the room jumped as well.
" Where have you been ?"John asked.
"I've been monitoring Destiny's condition….She's awake now."
John, Racheal and Sarah came running to Destiny's room. John stood at the door of her room and grinned when he saw Destiny's eyes flicker open.
He moved next to her bed and sat on his knees.
"Hey, Kiddo." He whispered. Racheal went and sat down curled up on the bed next to Destiny, wiping the hair out of her face. Sarah sat down on the end of the bed.
"Got a headache yet?" Sarah teased her.
Destiny stuck her tongue out and Sarah grinned. John stood back up.
"I'll let you rest."
"I think I'll stay with her for tonight. " Racheal said tiredly.
"No, mom; That's ok, you go on." Destiny muttered, her eyes drifting toward Sarah.
"I'll stay with her." Sarah spoke up, noticing Destiny's gaze. "You two are tired and I'm not, I'll stay with her tonight." She persuaded.
Racheal nodded and got up. She and John left the room.
"Call me if she needs something." John said as he left. Sarah got up and laid on the bed where Racheal was.
"You want a story I'm guessing. "Sarah said as she caught the look of curiosity in her eyes .
"You always object to being watched and for once you want me to watch you while you're supposed to be resting."
Destiny grinned. "Please?"
Sarah nodded. "Under one exception. No more Wizard of Oz or the story about the time John broke me out of Pescadero."
Destiny pretended to look disappointed. "Awwwww...How about a story on why you and Kyle Reese had that look earlier?"
Sarah looked at Destiny.
"Oh come on, Nana. Something is between the two of you."
Sarah smirked. "He's…He's John's father."
Destiny looked shocked. "Wha..What?"
Sarah laughed. "Now that's an interesting story…
When …I was 19, I was a waitress working to pay for college. I lived in an apartment with my best friend and one day that all changed. I turned on the news and two women with my name had been murdered. I went out that night because my roommate's boyfriend came over and I noticed I was being followed by a man named Kyle Reese."
