Chapter 434

They Need My Help

Bob quickly got his team ready to take down the Skynet Metal. They were last minute 'players' in the game. They'd just arrived.

Jim was notified to go in hard and hot from the back as soon as any shooting started.

Bob knew of Cameron's wishes. He didn't agree with some of them. He didn't like to go easy on enemy Metal. Then again Cameron usually proved to be correct in the end. She'd kept them safe. They'd suffered no losses or deaths.

The two Skynet Terminators entered the building. Bob's team tried to Taser them. The female Terminator fell instantly. She collapsed like a rag doll. The male Terminator dodged the hit. He came up shooting.

Jim's crew in the rear heard the shooting and responded. They crashed through the back door and back window. They engaged all targets. The targets were anything that was not their group of Terminators. Some of the targets scattered rather than fight.

The male Terminator that dodged the Taser came up firing and scored a few hits on Bob and his team. They all opened up on the enemy Terminator, his sheath was shredded. The Coltan projectiles disabled him. He fell like a ton of bricks.

Bob sent the rest his team to back up Jim's crew while he Tasered the now fallen male Terminator as he struggled on the ground. The female Terminator started to reboot, he Tasered her again. He removed both of their chips. As soon as that was done he joined the fight.

Steve and Al moved from their observation point outside to go in to secure the Tasered Metal. Cameron indicated she was on her way.

Jim's team at first met little opposition. The Grays were totally unprepared and not expecting them. Their guard was inattentive, now they paid the price. The price was their lives.

Bob entered from the front section into the main part of the building. He entered soon after the rest of his team. They all shot at targets. Very few rounds were fired in return at them. In less then fifteen seconds it was over. Every Gray they could see was terminated.

Sheila reported seeing two more vehicles headed their way at a high rate of speed. John Henry sent one drone to intercept them. The scans didn't show any obvious Terminators in them. There still could be.

Cameron's Terminators said they were on an intercept path and they would handle the two approaching vehicles. They'd been held in reserve if the Resistance forces needed them. Sheila said she could take both of them with missiles. CamNet directed Sheila to backup the main operation instead.

Sheila wondered what that was all about. Then again she knew CamNet was another version of Cameron. Nobody was going to argue with that, with 'Cameron'.

Bob and Jim looked over the area. It seemed like there should be more to it. This was almost too easy of a takedown.

"I think there's more to this." Bob said.

Jim was in agreement.

They left it up to the rest of the team to collect what they could and get everything ready to move out. They wanted a better look around.

They looked around the first three sides of the building and moved to the last side once they'd checked everything else.

Jim thought he may have found something.

"Over here." Jim said.

Bob went over and looked. There was a scuff mark on the floor. It appeared to have been repeated quite a few times. There was an old metal work shelf in front of it. He pulled on it and it moved. It rotated out from the wall like a door. There was an opening behind it. He looked at Jim and nodded.

Jim nodded back. It would need a closer inspection.

Bob went into the opening first. It led to the building next door. That building was full of old office equipment and dusty storage boxes.

Jim pointed at the dusty floor. There was a path in the dust where people passed back and forth more than a few times.

They carefully followed the path. There were no deviations in the dust. It ended at a large flat wooden crate that was stored upright.

Jim went to move it and it swung out like the metal storage cabinet did. There was a doorway behind it. There was a staircase that led down.

Bob let Steve know where they were but said they hadn't detected a threat yet. Steve advised them to use caution.

They went down the staircase. Everything was in total darkness. They weren't hindered much by that at all. They could use different vision spectrums as well as night vision.

There was a noise somewhere below them. It was a single metallic 'click'.

Jim held up his hand for Bob to pause.

"Don't make noise." The first Gray said.

"No one knows we made it here." The second Gray said.

"We need to get out of here." The third Gray said.

"Everyone else got creamed." The second Gray said.

"Quiet." The first Gray said.

"We need to get away from here now." The third Gray said.

"Going outside is a death sentence." The first Gray said. "We need to wait this out."

"I think we made it out clean." The second Gray said.

Jim and Bob continued to move down the stairs.

"What about all this stuff?" The third Gray asked.

"It's all secured for now." The first Gray said. "We can come back for it some other time."

"Do we know who hit us?" The second Gray asked.

"It could be the anti-Metal clan or the Fanatics." The first Gray said.

"Maybe it's that 'Metal Bitch' we've heard about." The second Gray said.

"They say she's everywhere." The third Gray said.

"You know that can't be true." The first Gray said. "She would have been destroyed or captured by now."

"What if there's a whole army of her – them?" The second Gray asked.

"Just collect some of this stuff and stop worrying about it." The first Gray said. "We're going to have a hard enough time explaining how we made it out."

"We can say were had bimbo tied up down here and we were 'doing her' when it hit the fan." The second Gray said.

"We did have one until a week ago." The third Gray said.

"We'd still have her if you morons didn't start carving them up so fast." The first Gray said.

"You know some of the guys can't get off unless they hear them scream." The third Gray said.

"Well, I'm not one of them." The first Gray said.

Bob and Jim were on the lower level now. There was a dim light up ahead.

They could see the three Grays collecting something.

"Let's go." The first Gray said. "This should by us a reprieve."

Jim and Bob both blended in on either side of the path. Much to their surprise the Grays didn't come that way. They started out in a different direction.

They moved out to follow the Grays. They passed by a series of computers. All of them were stripped of their hard drives.

The Grays moved along in single file. Only the man in the lead carried a light.

Bob moved up in back of the last Gray and silently snapped his neck. Jim passed by them and did the same with the second Gray. They carefully set the bodies down and followed the first Gray. They figured it would save time to have him lead them to anything of value.

"Do we want to take anything else with us?" Bob asked in the second Gray's voice.

"What else is there to take?" The first Gray asked. "We have Skynet here with us. Well, a backup copy of it anyway."

Bob and Jim looked at each other. Maybe that's why the place looked there should have been more. This was all about a backup for Skynet.

The first Gray reached the back wall.

"We're here." The first Gray said.

He tripped a latch and opened a section of the wall. It led out to the side street. None of the Resistance team was on that side. The Grays might have gotten away if one of the drones wouldn't have spotted them.

The first Gray looked back and saw four red eyes. He went to scream and run but Bob grabbed him. They wanted to find out where he was going to go with the hard drives. The Gray lifted his pistol and shot himself in the head.

Bob and Jim were surprised. That was the first time they'd encountered that. They closed the opening and collected the phones and hard drives. They went back up. They didn't tell anyone what they'd come across. Cameron would want the hard drives herself to go through.

Earlier:

Cameron grabbed Ally when she left. She filled Ally in on what was happening and what she wanted.

"I want the female." Cameron said.

Ally wondered what new plan Cameron contemplated. She knew some fresh skirt was something to look forward to. She hoped to 'inspect' her before Sheila did this time.

"You still have one female Resequencing now that's inactive." Ally said. "What's her story?"

Cameron played it close to the vest. She didn't elaborate on what her actual plans were.

"She will be needed for a temporal mission." Cameron said. "I want all the females I can get."

Ally was always ready for a new conquest before Sheila. Sheila usually cut to the front of the line.

"I'm all for that." Ally said.

Cameron shot Ally an angry look. She was displeased with the high level of sexuality the other Metal girls exhibited. That was due to their 'Neural Interface' with the girls from the other future.

Ally smiled at her. She knew Cameron still hadn't tried a 'flesh taco'.

"Don't knock it until you've tried it." Ally joked. "Once you try crack, you won't go back."

Cameron shot Ally another dirty look.

Ally knew she was pushing it. She possessed the 'Neural Interface' files from Allison. Allison liked females. She'd spoken with Vanna and Jesse about it too, they all preferred female companionship along with everything it offered. They'd all try fresh gash in a flash. She remembered when Claire told her that only a female could truly satisfy another female.

Cameron wanted Ally to focus on what they were doing now.

"Enough." Cameron said. "We have people in combat right now."

Ally was aware any of then could be damaged or even destroyed.

"I'm sorry, Cameron." Ally said. "I know you're worried about them. I am too. I just tried to lighten the mood some."

It all weighed heavily on Cameron. There was a certain amount of frustration with everything.

"I'm worried about everyone - EVERYONE." Cameron said. "I'm worried about everyone and everything. There's so much I need to do. There are choices I can't make. There are choices that need to be made. I can't keep hurting the people I love."

Ally felt the vehicle swerve a little bit. She saw Cameron remove her left hand from the steering wheel. It started to glitch. It seemed to get worse.

Ally knew Cameron was really troubled by something more than usual. She wanted to ask Cameron what it was but was afraid she would snap at her. She still wanted to comfort Cameron if possible.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ally asked

"NO!" Cameron all but shouted.

Ally was sure Cameron's eyes glowed red for a fraction of a second.

They sat in silence as Cameron drove.

The silence weighed on Cameron.

"I'm sorry, Ally." Cameron said. "I wanted something to happen and I thought it was finally going to, now it won't. Not yet. Nothing has worked out the way I planned and wanted. I have no control over them."

Ally wasn't really sure what Cameron referred to at this point. It didn't seem like a good idea right now to press her on it.

"Why don't you?" Ally asked.

Cameron felt the future weigh on her, all of them.

"The plan changed." Cameron said. "I have to put my Duplicate sisters before myself. I don't want to but they need my help more. I need to return to my future and see what happened there. I need to return to the future Mrs. Weaver is in. I need to go to River's future. Something can go wrong on any of those missions."

Cameron already experience one temporal error. It was not significant but it could have been.

Ally wanted to offer Cameron her assistance and some suggestions.

"I can go in your place, Cameron. You can download your program onto my chip or give me a second chip port like Cammy. I can go 'with' you or as you in that manner. If you give me the second chip port, you can place your spare chip in me. You can always remove your duplicate chip from me later that way." Ally said. "We all want to help you, Cameron. I want to help you."

Ally noticed that Cameron's glitch slowed but hadn't stopped. It looked like she'd given Cameron an option she hadn't thought of or she didn't want to 'ask' for. She reached over and gently touched Cameron's cheek.

"We all care, Cameron." Ally said. "We all care about you. You know we will all do anything for you."

Cameron gave Ally a quick glance.

"Thanks, Ally. I know." Cameron said. "I know."

Cameron could hear some gunfire in the near distance. That must be the vehicles that her team of Metal engaged.

Ally finished armoring up.

Cameron wanted to have some protection too. She absent mindedly touched her right breast.

"We're almost there." Cameron said. "Give me my vest as soon as I get out. I don't want my new sheath component damaged."

Ally wanted to change drivers on the fly.

"I'll drive. I can switch with you." Ally said. "You can be ready when we get there."

Cameron liked that idea.

"You slide over the top of me." Cameron said. "I will move underneath you."

Ally was about to say they should face each other when they did that but decided not to. Cameron was still on edge. There was no need to 'push' her.

She moved over and Cameron slid underneath her. Ally moved into the driver's seat. The vehicle barely slowed. Cameron armored up as well while Ally drove.

Ally smiled. She heard the story of Cameron's 'replacement' breast and how she received it. Ally hoped one day to meet Ginger and Sandy herself. That was a true friend to do that. Ally didn't think she could do that herself. Then again if Cameron asked her, she knew she couldn't say 'no'.

She knew that both the Terminators and humans would do anything they could for Cameron. They all wanted to help her but none wanted to hurt her. She was aware the young version of Jesse was here from Australia with her family. She didn't know if she would be more pliable to Cameron's wishes than the girls who needed to see Cameron everyday. Young Jesse would most certainly be one hot ticket in bed.

On Ally's last rendezvous with Hanna she was informed that Claire would be with John any way Cameron wanted her to be. That was if Cameron would promise not to take Summer from her like she'd 'taken' Young Allison from her. So far Cameron hadn't agreed or called in her marker. They all knew that meant Cameron was going to 'mature' Young Allison in the past and send her after John upon her return. A teenage 'Allison' as alluring and charming as Future Allison would be hard to turn down. Ally knew she would take a 'crack' at her. That is when the opportunity arose.

Cameron informed Bob she was about to arrive in front. Bob went out the front door with the female Terminator in his arms. Cameron walked up with Ally. Steve and Al collected the shredded male Terminator and already took him away.

Cameron took the female Terminator from Bob's arms.

Bob wanted to ask who she was going to be Resequenced into but refrained. There was no need to give Cameron any more ideas. She seemed to have enough of them on her own. Some of them were quite questionable. They seemed to cause her more pain than they should.

Ally looked at the female Terminator that Cameron now held.

"She's beautiful." Ally said as she looked at her.

Cameron looked down at her and took in her beauty.

"Yes, she is." Cameron said.

The urge to be someone different flooded Cameron again. She could tether with her server and switch her chip into this chassis. After that she could 'run away'. She really wondered what it was like to get away from it all….

"…CAMERON…." Ally said.

Cameron looked around.

"Sorry, my mind wandered." Cameron said. "Let's go."

Ally still possessed the keys.

"I'm driving." Ally said.

"What?" Cameron asked as she looked at the new female Terminator's face.

"Oh, brother." Ally said.

Ally wondered what was going wrong now with Cameron.

Cameron looked a million miles away.

"Where are the keys?" Cameron asked.

"I'm driving." Ally said again.

Bob witnessed the exchange.

"I better go with you." Bob said as he looked at Cameron.

The blank look on Cameron's face worried both of them. Ally and Bob were afraid Cameron was about to have a 'problem'.

Bob assigned Dan to take over his team and finish gathering any intel along with Jim and then get out.

Bob wondered how this was going to go over in the Command Center. He still needed to give Cameron the metal box with the chips in it. He also carried the hard drives he'd taken from the Grays with a possible copy of some version of Skynet on it. He decided to do that another time or at least later on. He questioned his actions right now but Cameron would be angry if she wasn't given everything herself. It would just need to wait.

John was in the Command Center with Derek and John Henry as they monitored the raid. Everything seemed to go fairly well. The Grays were dead and the two Terminators were down and secured. They'd collected intel and a back up force of Grays was terminated on their way to reinforce the target site.

Now Cameron was there for some reason. She didn't need to be. Ally was with her so John wasn't too worried. At least she wasn't alone.

Sheila indicated all was good in the sky and she would disengage and head back to the base. The drones were on wide ranging sweeps now, nothing new showed up. That was a good sign.

Everything looked good. Or was it?

They Need My Help

The darkness is dark
It hinders one to clearly see
Maybe it really prevents them
From being all they can be

Guidance is seldom welcomed
Everyone thinks they know it all
It appears the end result of that
Is they just have longer to fall

Why won't someone listen
To one who has been down that path
To repeat the same mistakes
Only furthers another's wrath

To wade into the muck
Is a messy business indeed
The goal is to salvage
As well as hopefully reseed

When one cares for another
Some may question their actions
They need my help
As additions not subtractions

Nobody