Alison checked the receiver that she had attached to the C4. It was operational. Everything looked good here. Looking up from where she was working. Thank to John and his stupid plan, she was alone in the room. The Grays had captured him and had taken him somewhere. Alison guess that they would take him to Skynet before they terminated him.

"Great." She muttered as she moved towards the dead bodies John had left her. "And this is the man that I'm falling for."

She quickly began picking through the clothes and equipment. Most of their equipment was worthless to her. She picked up as much of their ammunition as she could before she started after John and his captors. It wasn't that hard to track them. The thin layer of dirt on the ground was filled with tracks, but there was one very important set of tracks that she was interested in. The left foot was being dragged. It was John's wounded leg.

Alison stopped after following the tracks for what felt like an hour. Kneeling on the ground, she pulled out the map that John had given her. After a few moments of tracing the zig-zagging lines with her finger, Alison determined that she was only a dozen or so yards from another switchback. Once passed that switchback, she should find herself standing outside the chamber that housed Skynet…assuming that Derek's maps were accurate for once. She smiled at that thought.

There was light ahead. Alison crouched down and looked around the corner. The room ahead was lit brighter than any of the rooms that she had seen so far in this place. A large glass wall separated the room into two. Behind the glass was a set of cubicles, civilians working at computers, a half dozen Grays, a few terminators, and John Connor. Standing between her and the glass was a large stone pillar that was helping to hold the ceiling up.

Alison moved to the cover of the pillar and poked her head out to look. John was sitting behind a desk. Two of the Grays were next to him. One was beating him. Alison swore. She took another look around the room. If she attempted anything, her chances of succeeding was almost nothing. Still, she couldn't let them beat John. She raised her rifle and took aim at the man beating John.

She breathed out slowly and went to squeeze the trigger when a hand reached out and pulled the rifle from her grasp. She rolled onto her back and drew her Glock.

"Easy!" Derek whispered as he held the rifle back out to her. "It's me."

"Derek?" Alison looked over his shoulder to see Ellison and Cameron moving in the shadows to avoid being noticed.

"If you shoot that man, without a plan, they will kill John." Cameron said as she moved to kneel next to Alison. "I can't let that happen.

Alison felt her body fill with adrenaline. This cyborg scared the crap out of her. "We can't just let him suffer like that."

"No." Derek said. He took a moment to glance around the pillar. "We will not. It is time to earn our pay. Ellison, you are going to stay here, give us some cover."

"Right." Ellison said as he checked his weapon.

"Alison, Cameron, and I will go in on my signal. We'll keep the tin cans busy. Ellison, pick off the Grays. Any questions?" Derek looked around. "No? Good. Wait for my signal."

"I don't follow your orders." Cameron said softly.

"Maybe not." Derek muttered as he watch the enemy. "But if we are going to save John, you are going to have to listen to me for once."

Alison looked out at John. She wanted to kill those who hurt him, but she trusted Lieutenant Reese. He was always one of the best soldiers she had ever known. He had saved her life more times then Alison cared to admit and had always looked after her. He also would look after John.