"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class. It is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." Anna Julia Cooper.
The transporter took them and stuffed them into its holding cell and took aim at Derek's team coming down the mountain. The four fighters scattered when the transporter took its shot. They retreated to the other side of the mountain and Sayles radioed in to Derek.
"Reese, we have to abort the mission. We can't take the transporter down by ourselves and going after it is suicide."
"We have to radio in for air support."
"We can't just let it go back to Skynet central with Connor's daughters. We're going to need them. If Skynet ever kills off Connor and his wife then we're going to need those kids. Skynet wants them dead, we stop now and they will be dead." Derek responded.
"I don't give a damn whose kids they are. Going after them is going to get us all killed." Sayles argued.
Destiny and Katya clawed at the inside of the transport's cage, struggling to get out. Only bloodying themselves, they gave up and fell back. The transporter took them back to the camp and dropped them off. They were pushed out of their cage and a T-700 drug them out by their hair into the processing line. Forced by the guards behind them, they continued on in the camp and looked around, remembering to walk and look at the same time to avoid being "encouraged" by the cyborg's gun. The HKs were watching over the humans, shining their lights on them. Destiny looked up at the HK's gleaming light and everything went dark suddenly.
(Voiceover By Destiny) "
I've given a lot about how I would die and the person I would be when it happened. I thought about what had killed me and what I had accomplished. I'd never thought I'd die with no purpose. Even the real Cinderella got her wish or Destiny… Perhaps we are all doomed before we're even born."
When she opened her eyes, she looked around, propped herself up on her elbows and gazed at what was in front of her face. She was in some white, sterile room. As she worked her way to her feet, she felt dizzy and sluggish. Destiny felt a sharp pain at the base of her head and placed her palm there. When she brought her hand back it was covered in dark red blood. She was alone in some place she couldn't remember, she had no idea how she got there. She slowly made her way to the door and pushed the handle down to open it when it released a surge of electricity through her veins. Destiny shrieked and pulled away. She cradled her left arm. She was trapped.
Derek's team silently looked at each other unsure on how to approach the new situation. Kyle kept his eyes glued on Derek. He couldn't believe that none of them did anything but bicker at each other. Derek had seemed to give up completely.
"They've probably been discovered and executed by now." Derek sighed.
"You don't know that." Kyle snorted somewhat angrily. Sayles and Jessie looked up at him and Jessie smirked.
"Someone has a crush." She teased in a mocking tone.
"I do not!" Kyle yelled defensively.
"You sure, Reese?" "Absolutely." Kyle replied.
"Then what?" Derek asked.
Kyle thought for a minute and shook his head. "You wouldn't understand even if I explained it."
John paced back and forth at the base, monitoring Destiny's tracker. He was a bit relieved to see that she had moved. She had been still for four hours and he had began to fear the worst.
Destiny began pacing back and forth, staring at the door handle. She stopped for a moment and glared at it. She looked at the room and for anything she could use that was non-conductive to open the door. There were some scissors lying about but that wouldn't work. Destiny checked all of her pockets, she noticed that her shoes were gone. I suppose they found the knives in her shoes and took them, shoes and all. Nothing….not a damn thing in the room to looked back at the door and glared at it again. "To hell with it."She thought and ran toward the door, pushing the handle down and raced out to the right, running straight into the T-1000. Falling backwards, she landed on her back and looked up at it. It was the same T-1000 that had been after her before. Destiny tried to run away. Only, her feet seemed to be glued to the floor. She was too scared to move. She opened her mouth as the machine moved closer to her. Instead of a glass-breaking scream, she let out a raspy whisper, too faint for any human to hear.
Derek shook his head and snuck closer to the camp. "Fine, I'll get them myself."
Kyle thought for a moment and got up too. "I'll go." He said. After a moment, Sayles got up as well and followed the Reese boys.
Jessie looked at them and shook her head."You are all crazy. I wouldn't risk my neck for those brats anyday, even if they are Connor's."
Racheal shoved a bag full of ammo on a table and began checking them to make sure she had enough.
"You can't go and get them, Racheal." John muttered softly.
"And why not?" She asked.
"It's what Skynet wants…. What it's been waiting for since they were knows we'll chase after them and it will use them to try to kill us all. If we go, we all die, if we stay, they die. That's why Derek is out there. To bring them back alive."
" And if his team fails?" Racheal asked.
"They won't fail." John said, not taking his eyes off the screen.
"What makes you so sure?" Racheal asked while she sullenly put the bag back.
John looked around the room and back at his wife, smirking. "I don't see Sarah."
The T-1000 grabbed Destiny's left arm and with its left arm, it formed a point and lunged its arm to stab her. Her eyes got big and she swerved to the right, letting the liquid sword cut her side instead of piercing through her. Destiny winced. The T-1000 took a plasma shot from behind and released Destiny. She took off, not seeing her savior. The T-1000 turned around. A mist of white smoke flew in front of Sarah's face. The machine took a stab at Sarah and she ducked. A T-700 had been informed of the situation and began to close in. Destiny heard the distinct sound of metal on concrete coming slowly toward her and she panickly looked around for a place to hide.
Not satisfied by her surroundings, she tried to budge open a locked door in the tunnel. After giving up on it, she placed her foot on the turn wheel and began climbing up. She could reach the ceiling from it and grabbed hold of one of the pipes. Pulling herself up, she crawled away from the view of the hall when a pipe leaked steam behind her, causing her jump. Destiny swallowed her heart and crawled on the pipes back to where the T-1000 was. Lifting her head a short ways, she could see over in the hall. The T-700 was walking faster than her and she picked up speed. After crawling 4 times her body with, she peared down again. Both machines were fighting Sarah. T-1000 behind her and the T-700 in front of her. Destiny stuck her head up high and Sarah met her gaze. Sarah ducked from the T-1000's attempt to strike and let it hit the T-700, pushing it forward. Destiny stood up close to the edge. Each time Sarah avoided the T-1000, the T-700 was pushed closer to Destiny. Taking extra care not to miss, she jumped on the back of the T-700 just as Sarah moved out of the way. The T-1000 struck the T-700 in the head and damaged its CPU. The T-1000 observed the new situation with both Connors and melted into a puddle and slithered away.
Destiny and Sarah looked at each other and Sarah hit the back of Destiny's head. "What the hell were you thinking?"
