John Connor was sitting in the dining room with his newly found uncle - Derek Reese, while Cameron stood vigil at a corner looking outside through the window. John glanced once at Cameron then turned his gaze at Derek. Of course, Derek had no idea that John was his nephew. John wanted to tell him that, but he knew his mother wouldn't agree and maybe she was right, the identity of John's father is their greatest secret. Then, Cameron knows it, what harm would it do if Derek knows?

But John realized he doesn't know Derek at all. He had just met the man, but he knew nothing of him. Maybe he should wait.

"Where is mom, Cameron?" John asked gently.

Cameron turned to look at him before answering. "Sarah has gone to relocate the Dyson family. She will be back very soon. You need not worry."

John shook his head. "Mom can take care of herself. So…" John focused on Derek now. "What's your story?"

Derek was reading the newspaper, now he folded the newspaper back on the table and relaxed back on the sofa. His gaze fixed on John.

"What do you want to know?" Derek asked.

"You are one of the soldiers who fought Skynet and won. You could help us locate Skynet's base. You know the location from the future." John said.

Cameron interrupted immediately. "Unlikely. Skynet won't use the same location as its base again."

Derek agreed. "Exactly. Things have changed John. She…" He indicated reluctantly towards Cameron, "Can give you the exact precise location. Better than me."

"True." John agreed. "But how can, you be sure? We can't take any chances."

At that moment Devin, Wiggs and Greene entered the room from outside. "We can scout the area if you want John." Wiggs proposed.

"Yes. Please. We need to be sure." John agreed.

The three soldiers nodded. "We will leave immediately."

"Hey." Derek stopped them. "Go prepared. Be ready for anything."

"We will." Wiggs said and the three of them immediately left.

Cameron saw them go, then she looked at John. "You did the right thing." She said to John.

John smiled slightly. Then his face turned sad. "I hope so and perhaps I didn't send the three of them to their deaths."

Cameron came behind him and placed one of her hands on his shoulder. "Unlikely. But if they do die, it will not be your fault. You didn't send them, they volunteered, and they knew the risks."

John let out a sigh of relief as his shoulder dropped. "Thanks, Cameron. But I do not want anyone else to die because of me. Not them, not Derek, not mom and you. I am tired of people dying for me."

Derek was the interaction between John and the machine. He didn't fail to notice the influence the machine had on the young John. He saw how easily it comforted John, and John is behaving with it in a way as if it is a person.

Some things do not change. He thought in his head while glaring at Cameron.

"So, how is it sleeping on the couch?" John asked Derek, trying to lighten the mood. Derek stared back at him, telling him silently, 'What do you think, Connor?'. John smiled to himself. "Slept on a few of them myself."

"Yeah? When was that?" Derek asked.

"When my mom was locked up." John said. "I kicked around. Friends and foster families."

"Your mom was in prison?" Derek raised his eyebrows.

John shook his head. "No. Mental hospital. You go around blowing up buildings and ranting about robots, it happens."

"That's rough." Derek replied.

Both fell silent and Cameron just stood there behind John, still with one of her hands on his shoulder which she didn't bother to remove, or she just held on to John for his comfort. Derek eyed her hand on John's shoulder menacingly. He saw that John had no problem about it touching him. He seems to even relish at the comfort of its touch. Derek gritted his teeth in anger but didn't say anything. He had seen the other Cameron in the future, how close future John was to it. And the same thing is happening here too.

"There was this one family. Todd and Janelle. I was with them for a while, and they were okay. Of course, I hated them. They wanted to adopt me." John murmured after a few moments of silence.

Derek smirked. "I am sure your mum would have died before she'd let that happen."

John let out a bittersweet smile. "Yeah. You'd think."

Derek sighed and leaned forward on where he was sitting. "Look John, what can happen to a person inside four walls screws with your head. Makes you do things you never thought you'd do."

John shook his head again, slightly. "Some people never give up. Some people always fight."

Derek nodded. "Fewer than you'd think." John smiled slightly at Derek's comment. "So, you ever wonder what happened to Todd and Janelle."

John leaned back on the sofa, with his head now resting against Cameron's belly where she stood just behind him. Derek saw it and his fingers curled up in anger. John either didn't realize or he didn't care. "No. I know what happened. I got them killed."

At that John felt a slight squeeze on his shoulder. He looked up and smiled at Cameron slightly, showing that he appreciated her gesture and covered her hand with his own, which was still resting on his shoulder.

At that very moment Sarah Connor entered the house and sat down beside Derek on the sofa. She looked anxious and maybe slightly scared?

"Mom, are you okay?" John immediately asked, after getting up on his feet.

Sarah didn't speak immediately and both John and Derek were getting tense. "Mom!" John called. "Are the Dysons safe?"

Sarah looked at her son. He looked worried. "They are safe. But Tarissa has revealed a name."

John was confused. "A name? What name?"

"Andy Goode." Sarah whispered. "He was a trainee at Cyberdyne under Miles Dyson."

"And?" John was getting anxious and excited.

"I know Andy Goode." Derek revealed at that moment.

Everyone looked at him surprised. "You know? And you didn't tell us?" Sarah asked angrily.

"I haven't even got the time to tell anything to any of you." Derek countered back with his voice slightly raised.

"Can anyone tell me why we are so concerned about Andy Goode?" John asked, irritated.

"I was once taken captive by the machines in the future. There were more prisoners there. One of them was Andy Goode." Derek explained.

"Skynet work camps?" John asked.

"No. It was an abandoned old house in the middle of a desert. We were interrogated there by the Grays under the watchful eyes of Skynet. I met Andy there. He told me that the apocalypse, the war, Skynet was everything his fault. He created Skynet in the future." Derek explained.

"The Turk." Cameron said, suddenly.

Now everyone looked at her confused. "What?" Sarah asked.

"The Turk." She repeated.

"What is that?" John asked.

"It's a chess computer, which later evolved to become Skynet." Cameron deadpanned.

Everyone's eyes widened. "Why didn't you tell us before?" Sarah almost yelled.

"It's not important." She simply replied.

Sarah was on her feet fuming. "That thing… the Turk, becomes Skynet. It's not important?"

"Not anymore. Things have changed. Skynet is already online. The Turk is not important anymore. Skynet will evolve without the Turk." She explained.

"But Cameron, what if the Turk is the key? What if Skynet targets Andy Goode for the Turk, so it can evolve much faster?" John interrupted.

Cameron looked down at John where he was still sitting. "It's your decision, John." She simply said.

"Andy Goode must die." Derek said.

Sarah turned back at Derek, pissed off. "No one dies, until I say anything. I will go and meet Andy Goode." She looked at John. "Find his address, John."

"Fine." He said grumpily and got up and left the room.

Sarah followed him. "Don't use my shower, Reese."

John shook his head. He turned to Cameron who was still there standing behind him. "I think mom is right. Things have changed. We can't just kill a man like that. Maybe he doesn't know that thing will become Skynet."

"He doesn't." Cameron confirmed. "Just like Miles Dyson."

John was not surprised that she knew about Miles Dyson. "Yeah. I don't know what to do about Andy Goode, but the Turk must be destroyed."

With a sigh John was up on his feet. He saw Cameron was already leaving, probably heading upstairs for a shower. But he stopped her. She turned back to look at him. "Do you think I have made the right decision, Cameron?"

Before answering she smiled slightly at him. "You are ahead of your schedule." She simply said.

"About?" John asked with a sense of pride, although he didn't show it on his face.

"What you need to learn." She then winked at him and left the room, closing the door behind her, leaving John with his mouth hanging open.


FBI Agent James Ellison was considered one of the best in the department. He had solved several cases and his services had also earned him a reputation. As an FBI agent Ellison was successful but as a normal man, he was not. He was all alone. His parents had died long ago, and his wife had left him. He also had no friends, some co-workers. Yes. But nothing more.

James Ellison pushed the thoughts of his personal life from his mind. For now.

He concentrated the case in his hand. His colleagues had warned him that this case was a nut job, but he didn't listen. He was obsessed.

Sarah Connor.

Miles Dyson.

Cyberdyne.

And that mysterious huge man who was responsible for the death of seventeen police officers that night in 1984, in West Highland Police Station. His target was Sarah Connor. He was also responsible for the murders of several more civilians before that incident at night. The same man who disappeared and reappeared again in 1994. He was sighted in a mall named 'The Galleria'. He was also responsible for the destruction of Cyberdyne along with Sarah Connor and her son John Connor.

Ellison couldn't understand why this man was on Sarah Connor's side in 1994, when in the first place he was trying to kill her in 1984.

He could tell that Sarah Connor was delusional. She believed that one day machines would take over the world and her son, John Connor would save humankind. She was also under treatment in the Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane for a few years before she murdered Miles Dyson and blew up Cyberdyne. But then she disappeared along with her son, and no one was able to track her down, until recently.

Her son, John Connor was spotted outside a mall in Crestview a couple days ago, involved in a shootout. Someone tried to kill John Connor, but witnesses say he was saved by a teenage girl around his age. The girl dragged Connor's son inside the mall, then they disappeared. Then a few hours later, another shootout and commotion were heard about not far away from the mall. Civilians reported a shootout to Police, and they arrived but were too late. Ellison himself was there. There he found four dead bodies. One's neck was broken badly, another one's chest was completely shattered, one had a bullet wound right through his forehead and the last one had a broken hand but no fatal wound on his body. Ellison searched the house thoroughly, but he found nothing that would help him to trace the Connors. According to the owner of the house, Mrs. Baltimore, a seventy-year-old lady, had given this property out on rent to a woman named Sarah Reese. From more digging Ellison found out that the Connors had only stayed there for one day.

Suddenly his eyes fell on something on the floor. It was a bullet lying on the floor and the pointed end of the bullet was not pointed anymore, it was completely dulled, as if it stuck something solid. As Ellison looked carefully, he found a small trace of blood at the dulled end of the bullet.

His eyes narrowed. Without saying anything he silently pocketed the bullet, carefully avoiding prying eyes.

"So, agent, found anything useful?" One of the police officers asked.

Ellison shrugged his shoulders. "Sarah Connor seems to be more resourceful than I thought. She knows how to avoid people."

"So, another loose end?" The police officer kicked on the door angrily. "That bitch."

But something happened in the evening the same day that changed Ellison's perspective regarding Sarah Connor. Another shootout was reported at Dyson residence the same day, during the evening. When Ellison asked Tarissa Dyson whether Sarah Connor was involved or not, she said yes. But it seems Sarah Connor was not there to kill the Dysons; in fact, she had saved them, and she was not alone. Her son was with her, and a girl. The three of them had saved their family. Ellison had found two dead bodies there and both were dressed similarly to the ones he found in the Connors house.

According to Tarissa Dyson, she used to believe that Sarah Connor had killed her husband, Miles Dyson. But not anymore. She believed Sarah Connor's words when Sarah denied several times about her killing Miles Dyson. The Connors were at the Dyson residence only to save them, because John Connor suspected that the Dyson's are in danger after the attempted murder on the Connor's themselves.

There were several questions Ellison needed answering: Who are these people? Why are they trying to kill the Connors? Again, why the Dysons? Who is the girl with the Connors?

Tarissa also said that there was no one else with the Connors. So, the man, who was last seen in Cyberdyne had disappeared again.

There were also more facts that Ellison couldn't get his head into. The dead man in Connor's house whose neck was broken, seemed to be caused by a single individual, easily. Adding to that the other dead body whose chest was completely shattered, something extremely heavy, solid and powerful must have struck him with a great force on his chest, killing him instantly. But Ellison could tell that it was no human who did this.

It was impossible.

It did not end there. Two days later eight more men were found dead in a building in L.A. Upon arriving and inspecting the dead bodies, Ellison found out that they died of bullet wounds. He wasn't surprised when he heard again that the Connors were involved again. He also heard that the Connors had escorted four men out of the building before disappearing. He had searched the room where the four men were staying. There was nothing noticeable in the room except an opened safe, which was unsurprisingly empty.

What surprised Ellison was the fact that when he gathered evidence that all of those men were killed by a single person. Those heavily armed men, who looked like mercenaries, were killed by a single teenage girl. And he was sure that this girl is the one who was spotted previously along with the Connors.

But how can a teenage girl be capable of this kind of combat accomplishment? It just does not fit.

Ellison knew he was getting more and more anxious about the Sarah Connor case. It was getting more and more complicated and not to mention the facts he found were impossible, unless Sarah Connor was not delusional and really telling the truth. But how is that even possible? To his knowledge no such tech exists to this day that can create such advanced robots.

He could've dropped this case, but he didn't. He wanted to know the truth. Besides he doesn't want to lose his job, because he had strict orders from top to go after the Connors who are deemed to be extremely hostile and to be shot on sight. He found that order to be rather odd because Sarah Connor was never reported about killing anyone except Miles Dyson but that too is doubtful now, since Miles Dyson's wife herself believed that Sarah Connor didn't kill her husband.

But then who did?

Yes, Sarah Connor is extremely hostile, she has blown up computer tech buildings, but she is not a murderer. Ellison decided if he'd be able to find Sarah Connor, he won't shoot her like an animal without knowing why she did what she did.

There are a lot of things he needs to know.

His next stop would be to visit the man who informed the police about Sarah Connor's whereabouts in the first place. That man knew Sarah Connor personally. He needs to know more about Sarah Connor before moving forward with this case. He needs to understand her. He looked at the address written on his diary and the name of the person - Enrique Salceda.


Sarah was back with Derek after meeting Andy Goode. He turned out to be just a young man who is a computer programmer and has a lot of interest in chess. But Andy wasn't responsible for teaching the Turk how to play chess. It was a Russian man named Dimitri Shipkov. He is a business partner and friend of Andy Goode. But the Turk had a competitor. A chess tournament would be held a day after between the Turk and an A.I. made by a Japanese company. The winner would get a cash prize and a military contract.

"So, another A.I. huh?" Derek murmured.

"This is more complicated than I thought it would be." Sarah agreed.

"We can't ignore the A.I. made by the Japanese company." John added.

"Yes. But first we need to focus on the Turk." Sarah suggested.

"What if the Turk loses the competition and the Japanese get the contract?" Derek asked.

"We destroy the Turk anyway. It is far too dangerous." John said.

"Yeah. Andy said the Turk has something like mood. When a chess problem is presented to it, it would solve the same in different ways or it would not do it at all." Sarah agreed.

"It can think of itself." John said. "Far too dangerous to ignore it."

Derek nodded. "So, what's the plan?"

"We go in tonight. Then we compromise, without killing anyone." Sarah said.

Everyone agreed.


PASADENA, 1830 HOURS

Sarah, John and Derek were sitting at the front row of the convention hall, thanks to Andy Goode. They had decided to see the outcome of the tournament first before deciding their next course of action.

John was wearing the same clothes, Cameron had bought for him, when she first saved him from being assassinated, minus the mask. She was adamant about him keeping the mask on, but John was able to assure her that nothing would happen to him. She didn't look satisfied but didn't argue with him anymore.

John saw Derek was looking around for something in the hall.

"What are you looking for?" John asked.

Derek looked at him incredulously, "Where's the metal?"

John rolled his eyes. He let out a sigh. "She is doing her job. Keeping an eye on Andy Goode."

"Just cheer for the Japanese company, otherwise Cameron would kill Andy." Sarah said.

"She won't kill anyone." John protested.

"How do you know that?" Derek asked, slightly angry.

"She told me." John replied.

Derek sighed and leaned back on his seat. "You shouldn't trust the metal so much. They are no pets. You can't train them. They are only good at one thing – killing."

John was silent, but the veins on his forehead was popping out in anger. He said in a low, but dangerous voice. He looked Derek directly in his eyes. Long gone the warmth Derek was used to seeing in his green eyes. They were cold.

"I get it you don't like her, Derek. You don't have to. But trust me, when I said I do trust her." John said in a dangerous voice.

Sarah knew her son was angry and was very close to outburst.

"Listen to yourself, John." Derek didn't back down. "And think. You are infatuated because of its look. Hell, if I didn't know better, I would go there too. Can't you see it is manipulating you?"

"Enough!" John banged the armrest of his chair angrily. "You don't know anything Derek. Since she has arrived, she had saved my life a couple of times and had been there for me when no one else would."

Derek opened his mouth to argue but Sarah stopped him. "Give it a rest, Reese." She said looking at Derek.

Both John and Derek turned away from each other and focused their gaze on the chess competition.


CAMERON'S STORY

Cameron was insistent about John to hide his face from people's eyes. The Grays could be anywhere. But he had argued and assured her that he will be fine. Cameron also evaluated that there is only a 6.52% chance that the Grays will try something during the public event. The security was tight here and to be sure she has already checked the high vantage points, just to be sure.

She didn't want to leave John out of her sight, but she reluctantly did so because she had to keep her eyes on Andy Goode and the Turk. Once again making sure that John was safe, Cameron slipped past the crowd quietly into the backside of the Convention Hall. She sneaked past two security officers and found an open window at the back. Without making a single sound she vaulted inside.

It was an office.

The office of Dimitri Shipkov.

She begins searching his documents quite and fast. But she got nothing that would get her any information about the man. It took her sometime to search his entire office while not disturbing anything. She was almost done, except one drawer at the corner of the room which was locked with a lock and key. She had no other way to access the drawer except breaking the lock. With a slight push of her finger the lock broke. Inside there was nothing except a laptop.

She extracted the laptop from there and placed it on the table. She looked towards the walls of the room, while her eyes glowed blue. When she was sure that no one was coming, she opened the laptop and started to search for files, which would give her some information. She found a few documents which were marked important, but they were nothing suspicious.

As a last resort she begins to check the browser history. There she found an incoming video call. When she tried to open the video link it didn't open. She closed the browser and again begin searching his laptop for hidden files and folder. And then she found it. An audio file was there. Dimitri must have done everything in a hurry, otherwise he would have deleted every history from his laptop. Cameron lowered the volume of the laptop to lowest, so it would be almost inaudible to human ears but not to her.

She played the audio file.

"Did you give the proposal to Andy Goode?" A voice said, which Cameron couldn't recognize.

"Yes. But he is being stubborn. He won't sell the Turk." Now, this voice Cameron recognized, it belonged to Dimitri.

"Too bad. I never wanted him to die. I had use for him."

"Wait. Please don't kill him. I will make him understand. Please give me another chance."

"No one says 'no' to me, Dimitri. You had your chance. Now it's my turn."

"Please." Dimitri requested. But the stranger didn't even seem to hear it.

"You know what to do, Dimitri. You play your part, and you will not hear from me again."

"I…." Dimitri seemed to hesitate. "Fine I will do it. The Turk won't win."

"Good. That's what I wanted to hear." The stranger seemed satisfied. "Once the Japanese wins, you would hand over the Turk to me. My men will be waiting for you in Room 15."

"What about Andy?"

"Don't worry about him."

The recording has ended. Cameron had deduced in a matter of seconds that Dimitri must have recorded the entire conversation for proof or to manipulate the unknown speaker in the conversation. But she has no time now. She is not bothered about Andy Goode. Future John had told her specifically that Andy Goode must die. But she must secure the Turk from Dimitri.

But before that she must make sure that Dimitri must find no one to hand over the Turk to.

Cameron had already learned the layout of the convention hall before. She easily spotted room 15 and with her enhanced vision she detected two heat signatures inside the room, and they were both armed. She couldn't just barge in and kill them because she would be too late to stop at least one of them from firing at her. And that's not what she wanted.

She came to stop at the front of the door of the Room 15 and looked around. No one was paying any attention to her and there was no one at this side, except one or two people occasionally walking past the room. Wasting no time, she discarded her jacket and began to unbutton the top of the t-shirt she was wearing revealing her cleavage and bra.

Satisfied she opened the door and stepped inside. As she expected the two men were immediately alerted to her presence and she could see their hands on their guns in their pockets. Her expression changed to surprise and embarrassment.

"Hey! Who are you? What are you doing here?" One of the men asked her immediately.

"I….I am sorry." She stuttered. "My boyfriend said he would meet me here. I must have got the room no. wrong."

She turned around to leave but one of the men, grabbed her hand, preventing her from leaving. She could've easily freed herself from his grip or dislocate his hand, but she didn't.

"Where are you going, girly?" The man said, who had grabbed her hand. "I don't think you are here by mistake. So, what that your boyfriend is not here? I bet I can show you good things better than him." The man said, eyeing her cleavage.

She blushed and let out a shy smile. "You would?" She asked shyly.

The man pulled her inside and then pushed her against the wall of the room, which she'd let him. He completely pressed himself against her body while looking into her eyes.

"You bet." He said, confidently.

But the other man in the room stopped him. "George, what the fuck are you doing? Do you remember why we are here?"

George looked at his partner mockingly. "Aww. Don't be jealous, Seth."

"You don't have to be jealous; you know?" Cameron interrupted. Then she winked at Seth and beckoned him forward towards her with her finger.

A wicked smile formed on both men's lips. George begins to unbutton Cameron's pants with his one hand while his other hand worked on getting himself rid of his own pants. Seth came forward excited and tried to get rid of Cameron's T-shirt. Cameron smiled inwardly. She was waiting for this moment. With incredible speed she grabbed both men's throat in her vice like grip, completely taking them by surprise.

They couldn't speak, they could only make inaudible gurgling sounds inside their throats. Her eyes glowed blue in something akin to anger and both men's eyes widened in fear. Their eyes turned so large as if they would burst out any moment. With a slight pressure of both her hands Cameron broke their neck easily. She let their bodies fall on the ground with a disgusted look on her face. First, she fixed her clothes and then without a second glance at the dead bodies of both men, she closed the behind her and left after picking up her jacket from the ground.


AT THE COMPETITION

The competition was over, and Andy Goode was sitting at a corner on the stage with his head held with his hands. He looked defeated. He couldn't understand how the Turk lost. It's impossible. He looked for Dimitri, but he was nowhere to be found. Andy left the hall and went towards his room. He should check the Turk and get the problem solved fast.

But when he stepped inside his room, he found the Turk was not there. Strange. Dimitri should have kept it right where it was.

He decided to visit Dimitri's office, but before he could go the door of his room opened and a man came in with a handgun in his hand. Andy's eyes widened. But before he could even yell a silenced gunshot on his forehead dropped him to the ground. He lay there with his eyes wide open with blood trickling down from the wound on his forehead. The shooter fired two more silenced shots aiming at Andy's heart, to be sure, before he closed the door and left.

"Where's Andy?" Sarah said, looking around.

"Don't see him. He was just there." Derek said, pointing towards the stage.

"I can't believe the Turk has lost. Something is not right." John murmured.

"You are right." Cameron said, appearing out of nowhere and startling everyone.

"What do you mean?" John asked curiously, staring back at her.

"The Turk was supposed to lose. Dimitri Shipkov is responsible for it." Cameron revealed.

"He lost on purpose?" John asked.

"Why would he do that?" Sarah added.

"He is working for someone else. Probably the Grays." Cameron revealed. "The Grays want the Turk. You were right, John."

John nodded. "So, Dimitri made the Turk lose so it wouldn't get public attention anymore and he could hand it over to the Grays easily."

"Yes." Cameron agreed.

"How do you know all these?" Sarah asked.

She looked at Sarah. "I found evidence in his office."

"Metal, for once you have done something good, other than killing." Derek commented. Cameron stared back at him blankly, making him uncomfortable and he was forced to look away.

"We must go to Andy and secure the Turk." Sarah said.

"Andy Goode is dead." Cameron deadpanned.

"What?!" Sarah almost yelled in surprise. Everyone was shocked at the news.

"Metal, you killed him." Derek said, simply.

"No." Cameron denied. "I didn't kill Andy Goode."

"You bitch." Sarah said angrily and tried to slap Cameron across her face but with exceptional agility Cameron caught Sarah's hand in her vice like grip. Both John and Derek's eyes widened. John was surprised at his mother's reaction. Cameron told them that she didn't kill Andy Goode but despite that his mother didn't believe her.

"Let me go!" Sarah said with gritted teeth. She tried to pull her hand away from Cameron's grip but to no avail.

"Don't do that again." Cameron warned and let go of Sarah's hand.

"What the hell, mom?!" John said angrily. "She told you that she didn't do it."

Sarah turned to her son angrily. "And you believed her?"

"Tell me a reason why I shouldn't." John countered back. And Sarah had no answer to that.

"But we must get the Turk." Derek tried to stop the argument between John and his mother and focus on their reason of being here in the first place.

"Andy Goode doesn't have the Turk. Dimitri does." Cameron said.

"Fine. We need to find him then." Derek agreed.

"Follow me." Cameron hurried forward and the others followed.


Dimitri opened the door of the room no. 15 as he was instructed to hand over the Turk. But he didn't expect to find what he saw there. There were two bodies lying on the floor, dead. He understood these were the men he was supposed to meet and hand over the Turk. But someone has murdered them.

He stepped back and opened the door to leave. He didn't look back. He knew Andy was probably dead. There's nothing he could do about it. But he felt bad. Andy was a good friend of his and he has betrayed him to his death.

He quickly got unlocked the door of his car and got inside. In tension he let the key fall from his hand several times before putting it in the right place. With the engine started he instantly drove forward for his home. There he would get his belongings then he would run.

Then he felt something cold press against his temple. He almost let go of the steering wheel in fear, but he didn't.

"What do you want?" He asked fearfully to the man, who had his gun pressed against his temple.

"Drive." The man ordered.

He did.

Once they were outside the city the man in the backseat ordered him to park the car at the roadside. He did so silently.

"Get out!" The man ordered.

He did with his hands held high above his head.

"Hand it over." The man beckoned with his hand.

Dimitri did so wordlessly. He handed over the Turk.

"I did what you've asked. Now please let me go." Dimitri pleaded to the man.

The man smiled, cruelly. "You know too much my friend." He then placed the barrel of the gun right on Dimitri's forehead. "I am sorry."

Dimitri could tell that the man was not sorry. He closed his eyes in anticipation waiting for his life to end anytime. Maybe he'd deserve it after what he did to Andy. Then he heard a shot rang out and he expected himself to be dead. But he wasn't. He was alive and the man was lying on the ground in front of him.

Dead.

And right there, in front of him he could see four individuals standing in front of him. A woman, a man, a boy and a girl. The girl had a smoking handgun in her hand which she lowered. Dimitri was about to thank them, but the girl came rushing to him and hoisted him up by his collar easily, shocking him completely. Dimitri couldn't do anything. He helplessly saw as the boy took the Turk from the dead man's body and look at him.

"Who is this man working for?" The boy asked.

Dimitri could only stare. He was so confused. Who are these people? And what do they want from him?

"Answer him." The girl ordered, still holding him up without breaking a sweat. He was flabbergasted at this young petite girl. How can a girl like her could held a full-grown man like him this way? It was unreal.

"You should stay away from him. Don't mess with him. He is dangerous." Dimitri spoke while stuttering.

"How do we find him?" The woman asked.

He looked at her. "You don't. He finds you."

"What's his name?" The boy asked.

"Margos Sarkissian." Dimitri revealed.

"Who is he?" The boy asked again.

"I don't know anything about him. I had never seen him. He contacted me a couple of times through phone only." Dimitri said.

The girl took out his phone immediately and handed it over to the boy. Dimitri shook his head. "It won't work. He never called me from the same number twice."

"Cameron let him go." The boy said and instantly the girl lowered him down on the ground gently. "Now you listen." The boy said staring at Dimitri. "You run and don't look back. Don't talk to anyone about us. Or she will find you." The boy completed indicating towards the girl, who was still staring at Dimitri with hostility.

He nodded and got in his car and drove off.

John saw Dimitri leave. Then he looked down at the Turk which he still held in his hand.

"Now what?" Derek asked, holstering his weapon.

John looked at Cameron and smiled slightly.

"Cameron, would you do the honors?" He asked and dropped the Turk on the ground.

Cameron smiled back. She stepped forward and stomped on the Turk several times completely crushing it.

"Nothing can be recovered from that anymore." John said, looking at the smashed pieces of metal lying on the ground, then at Cameron with a smile. And like before she smiled back.

John Connor was right again, even Cameron had acknowledged her mistake. The Turk was the key to Skynet's evolution. The Grays had their sight fixed on it. The Connors had not only managed to stop the Grays but had also managed to destroy the Turk successfully in a way from which nothing could be recovered.


C/N: I should mention a few points about this chapter. First I found it rather odd and out of place that Sarah liked Andy Goode in the show because she was still in love with Kyle and every people she got involved with before was only for John. So he could get the proper training he needed. That's why I have completely removed the character of Charlie from this story. I also hope you like the way John his handling things and his mindset of course. And most importantly please do not forget to also let me know (as this is the most important thing), what do you think about Cameron? I am asking because she is a lot different here than the way she was portrayed in the show.

A/N: I would like to request everyone who will read this chapter to leave a review expressing their opinions about the way the story is going so far. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Some people did not like it as it is different and has perhaps much more less drama than compared to the show. So please please leave a review stating your thoughts about the story and this chapter.