Chapter 442

Temporal Turn-on

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Cameron's Base Current Timeline:

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Ally brought Cameron's spare chip and went with Cammy–Ginger to where the new deactivated Terminator was at. All the sacrifice that Ginger endured bothered her.

"You don't need to do this, Ginger." Ally said.

Ginger felt a deep inner calling.

"I know." Ginger said. "Please, let's just get it done."

Ally removed Ginger's chip from Cammy's chassis. She wanted to do more herself.

"Hanna, I need your help." Ally said.

Hanna went to assist her. She wasn't sure why she was needed. It seemed as if Ally was almost done.

"It looks like you have it under control." Hanna said.

Ally looked at Ginger's chip in her hand. She looked at Hanna with all seriousness.

"Hanna, I want you to remove my chip." Ally said.

Hanna looked at Cammy's chassis. The chip port was open. She wondered why Ally wanted to switch chassis with Cammy. It didn't make any sense. Their sheaths were identical, even if they weren't maintained the same way.

"Why?" Hanna asked. "What can be gained from that?"

Ally frowned slightly. This wasn't about her.

"Ginger has sacrificed enough. It's my turn now." Ally said. "I'm giving her my chassis and taking the new one Cameron brought in. You will put my chip in it now, please."

Hanna removed Ally's chip. She went over to the new Terminator chassis. Cameron hadn't started the Resequencing process on it yet. The sheath was dark toned and looked very different from what they were accustomed to. She would not make this choice herself. She quickly 'examined' the sheath in detail. It would need the laser for sure.

She did as Ally asked. She installed Ally's chip in the new Terminator.

Fifteen seconds later Ally's eyes opened.

"What are we going to call you now?" Hanna asked.

Ally actually thought about this earlier.

"Call me - Sally." Sally-Ally said.

Sally-Ally touched herself all over and everywhere. She wanted to make sure 'everything' worked like it was designed. It did.

'Sally-Ally' put Ginger's chip in her recently vacated chassis and Cameron's spare chip in Cammy's chassis. The chips were in the ports but not set.

Hanna was a little concerned that Ally didn't do as she was instructed. She figured Ally was up to something Cameron or Ginger wouldn't agree to. Maybe she wouldn't either.

"Why aren't we doing what we're supposed to do?" Hanna asked.

Sally-Ally wanted to take some of the risk herself this time. 'Cameron' needed to be offline for that.

"Don't activate them until I'm gone." Sally-Ally said.

Hanna didn't like this 'end run'.

"You know that's a bad idea." Hanna said.

Sally-Ally didn't want any flack from Hanna about this right now.

"I do but you know I'm still going to do it anyway." Sally-Ally said. "I need to go after Cameron and Savannah. I'm going to wait to see what happens first. If not, I'm going back before Claire and Holly returned."

Hanna would rather have 'Cameron' making the decisions right now. A lot was at stake. Too many things could change with that action.

"I don't think so." Hanna said. "Maybe we should activate Cameron - 'a Cameron' first.

Sally-Ally knew no one was going to agree to what she wanted to do. She relied on her 'personal friendship' with Hanna right now to help her make all of this work.

"I need your personal help on this, Hanna. I'm asking for that. Ginger or Cameron will not want me to go." Sally–Ally said. "That's why you need to wait until after I'm gone to activate them."

They heard someone else enter the room they were in. They looked over, it was Allison. They saw her look at the two chassis with the chips not set. This was probable going to make events take a different turn now.

Allison wondered what happened to Ally and Cammy–Ginger. They seemed like they were gone too long. She wanted to get things moving so she could find out what happened and how her baby was in the future. She set out to look for them.

She entered a room and discovered both Ally's and Cammy's chassis were deactivated now. The chips were in but not set. That didn't make any sense to her. She'd watched Vanna do this several times. She decided to set them. She'd never actually done it before.

Allison was startled somewhat a few seconds later as she reached out to do that.

"Stop." Sally–Ally said.

Sally–Ally saw the look if concern on Allison's face at seeing a 'stranger'.

"It's me - Ally." Sally–Ally said. "Call me Sally."

Allison saw a Terminator she'd never seen before. It was Ally's voice – her voice. Hanna was behind her. She didn't look concerned or show danger.

"It's Ally." Hanna said.

Allison looked at Sally–Ally. Maybe this could be interesting. She decided to play along.

"That's a nice - tan." Allison said. "Why aren't 'Cameron' and Ginger I take it, activated? They should be."

Sally–Ally was sure Allison would understand her motivation.

"They wouldn't want me to go." Sally–Ally said. "This is something I need to do. I don't want Ginger to be the one who needs to sacrifice every time either."

Allison was all for this idea. This was the chance she wanted. Ally would be the one most likely to help her.

"Take me with you." Allison said. "I want to see MY baby and help the others. We can go together."

Sally–Ally could see Allison was serious. If Allison left for Cameron's future it was going to be a problem. If she took Allison with her any anything happened to her, Cameron would come down hard on her. She wanted Allison to think a little deeper.

"Allison, I can't." Sally–Ally said. "Your condition is chancy enough as it is. You need to think of YOUR baby now, the one that's inside you."

Allison touched her belly. She didn't want to lose this baby too. The one her mother carried for her as a 'backup' was now already born and in Cameron's future with Duplicate Allison.

"You're right, Ally." Allison said. "I'm not thinking straight I'm so worried about everyone."

"Call me, Sally, like this." Sally-Ally said.

Claire wondered where Hanna went. She went in search of her. She heard the conversation in the room as she approached. She wasn't for any of what was discussed involving Allison. She would go back herself before she allowed Allison to go. In fact, she'd already said that earlier. She was very surprised and pleased at Ally's new look as she entered the room.

"I'd have to say that Ally's - Sally's right." Claire said. "You do have to think of your baby now. One of the Duplicate Allisons was able to have a baby. I think her name is Faith or will be…. This time travel stuff is so confusing. Even though things already happened, they haven't actually happened."

Claire took Allison away from the area.

Hanna was to make sure Allison didn't come back and set the chips. She went to where Sheila was at in the TDE room.

"What do we do now?" Hanna asked when she returned.

Sheila shrugged her shoulders. There wasn't much they could do. Everything was heated up now from the excessive power use.

"All we can do right now is wait for a little bit." Sheila said. "We need to give it some time and let the equipment rest to cool down, love."

Hanna filled Sheila in on what Ally was up to.

Sheila was intrigued with that idea. She wished she would've thought of that first. She would have Hanna put her chip in that chassis later on when Ally was done with it. The sheath really wasn't that much darker than her sheath except where things got 'private'. There was a big difference there.

"If John Henry doesn't detect anything anywhere soon, 'Sally' will go." Sheila said. "As soon as she does, you will activate Ginger in her new chassis, Ally's chassis and the new 'Cameron Prime' in Cammy's chassis."

They were all afraid that once Cammy's chassis was reactivated as 'Cameron Prime' that Cameron would never return. That was bad enough. Cammy and Savannah were missing as well. They were all sure once John figured everything out he would want to try and get the real Cameron and Savannah back. That would probably turn into a bigger hassle. There would probably be a lot of finger pointing too.

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Cameron's Future Timeline:

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The arcing and flashing started.

The energy bubble formed, Holly and Bob were in it.

The arcing and flashing ended.

Holly and Bob stood.

They were in the bunker Cameron used in this future timeline only a few minuets before. Holly returned from it with Claire.

Holly showed Bob where there was clothing and weapons that Cameron placed in the wall before she arrived the first time. She informed Bob that Cameron stockpiled many supplies in the past, for the future.

Bob thought that was a good idea. He quickly looked around and peeked outside. It looked as bleak as he'd imagined it would. He was a little concerned with being in the future. He was a little more worried about what may have happened to Cameron and the others.

Holly took out the weapons and clothing that she'd helped stash only minutes ago in this timeline.

"It's all clear for now." Bob said as returned.

Holly and Bob looked at each other as they stood before each other naked.

Holly could see Bob was a big brute of a man. He was heavily muscled and fully equipped with a nice 'package'.

Bob looked at Holly with her perfect shapely figure and large firm breasts.

Both kept blank expressions on their face as they checked each other out. They both found the other fascinating to look at. Bob usually didn't notice 'anything'. Holly only paid attention to females. That was probably because Allison would do that. She liked to see what the competition was.

To view each other this close intrigued both of them. Their faces never showed any emotion or expression. They both knew they were Terminators underneath it all. Perhaps if the setting and circumstances were different, things could be viewed differently. They weren't.

They quickly dressed in silence. There was serious business to attend to.

Bob gave Holly the time and date. They were right where they wanted to be.

It was easy for Holly to put herself back here at that same time period. While the time here was only fifteen minuets later, her time in real time was still only a couple of hours. She hadn't been in the past again for that long.

"We all arrived here from the Connor compound less than a half hour ago the first time." Holly said. "The energy bubble was on time fifteen minutes later. They should have only been gone less then ten minutes from here since they returned the clothing and firearms."

Bob was a little conflicted on exactly how to proceed.

"How do we 'fix' this without other complications?" Bob asked. "Do we track them down now and tell them they didn't make the rendezvous three months from now?"

Holly was sure if they made contact too soon it would alter what happened. She hoped to be able to identify the problem and then 'fix' it before it became catastrophic.

"I'm afraid that would change the timeline." Holly said. "We'll track them and fallback. I'm being fed information by Cameron. I've given her permission to take control if she deems it's necessary."

'Cameron's program' ran as a background program in Holly. She was aware of everything. She found Holly's 'encounter' with Bob interesting. She did nothing to intrude. She did enjoy the view.

Bob wondered how much 'control' Holly gave Cameron.

"Can she access your files of you and Allison?" Bob asked.

Holly shared everything with Duplicate Cameron for fifteen months before. This was nothing new to her. There were specific boundaries neither of them crossed before nor would they this time. She was a 'vessel' to assist Cameron.

"Yes, if she wanted to." Holly said. "Cameron respects my privacy and always has. I respect hers as well. Bob, we love each other. We don't want to hurt or intrude on each other."

Bob discussed 'love' before with Cameron.

"Cameron told me love is very rewarding and very painful." Bob said. "She's offered to share files with us to see if we want our programming 'modified'."

That concept intrigued Holly.

"Has any of the males actually done that?" Holly asked.

Bob found the concept of 'love' somewhat disturbing. There seemed to be as many negative impacts as there were positive ones.

"No, we've all seen the 'damage' done to Cameron and the other infiltration units, the females. They've all suffered and been 'damaged'." Bob said. "I don't wish to be hurt like that. We are Terminators, nothing should hurt us. It appears that the advanced emotional programming does. We shouldn't feel fear. The male units are all 'afraid' of being damaged in a way that is not actual physical damage. It seems harder to repair."

Bob knew the damage was from something that didn't physically exist. It all happened in the mind. That somehow made it even more 'terrifying'. It was an unseen force that even made people self terminate. It didn't seem wise to indulge in such a risky adventure.

"Yes, Bob, it's very painful at times but I know you have advanced beyond your initial programming as well. Everyone loves Cameron." Holly said. "I know it."

Bob knew that was true. His earlier encounter with Holly was proof of that. The male Terminators all 'looked at' the Resistance females they were around all of the time. They were captivated by Cameron and Savannah. Savannah often made physical contact with them. She touched them upon seeing them. That simple physical contact made a big difference. Cameron's escapades were very troubling as well.

"When Cameron has been damaged or tried to 'hurt herself' it has hurt all of us as well." Bob said. "Especially when we thought she was terminated or missing so many times."

The 'Cameron' in Holly offered her opinion.

"You know she's hearing all this." Holly said.

Maybe it was easier for Bob to express himself to 'Cameron' this way. He believed in what he'd said.

"I know." Bob said. "I want her to know we all care and worry about her, even if we are all very scary robots from the future and stone cold killers."

Tears began to run down Holly's cheeks.

"Why are you crying?" Bob asked.

Holly was flooded with Cameron's feelings right now. They were very overpowering.

"It's because Cameron is crying inside of me." Holly said. "I feel her pain."

Bob reached out and wiped away the tears. He felt their impact both physically and emotionally.

"I'm sorry." Bob said.

There was a profound sadness on Holly's face.

"Cameron said she is too…." Holly said.

It was time to get down to business.

Holly and Bob left the bunker and closed up on the group headed back to the Connor compound. It was Cameron and Ginger-Cammy.

Future John and Future Savannah wanted to come as well but Duplicate Cameron wouldn't let them. She insisted Future John and Future Savannah remain behind to help Future Allison with her baby.

It was 'John's baby' that was carried and delivered by Future Allison's own mother, Claire, still alive in the past. Judgment Day was delayed more than a few times.

Holly motioned for Bob to slow up. Cameron would sweep around them in a circle to check for intruders soon. They stopped and concealed themselves.

They saw Cameron in the distance. She eventually moved on.

Bob was impressed Cameron was so thorough. He was worried too.

"Did she make us?" Bob asked.

Holly didn't know for sure. She followed what 'Cameron' suggested and when. It was 'Cameron' against Cameron right now.

"I don't think so." Holly said. "We'll wait a little longer and move on."

When Holly was here earlier she observed how Cameron used hormones to get Future Allison's and Future Savannah's bodies ready to lactate for the infants. Future Allison and her were alone when Future Allison first started. Future Allison called her over to show her. She'd watched Future Allison breasts slowly get bigger each day and now she was ready….

Future Allison tasted the tiny drop that formed. Holly informed her how to stimulate production and then 'helped her'…. Their relation expanded from there. It was HER Allison but different. She wasn't different physically but she was emotionally. While many things were the same, others were different. Future Allison was less 'damaged' than Allison in more ways than one.

The 'Hanna' on her chip at that time asked to be in control with Future Allison and her together. She wouldn't let her. She told Hanna that ANY Allison belonged to her, ALL of them. Hanna was upset. It was the 'Vanna' and 'Holly' in her that desired Future Allison.

Hanna previously allowed her to be in control several times with Claire…. She discovered right away than Claire was a better kisser and lover than Allison, any of them…. She was sure Claire knew it was her and not Hanna in control the first time. Claire whispered in her ear as she nuzzled it that she'd 'dreamt of this moment for so long.' The look of love and desire in Claire's eyes melted Holly's 'heart'. Hanna was jealous. She felt guilty and eventually allowed Hanna and Future Allison to share. It was the right thing to do. It also allowed her to more access with Claire. That was her new desire anyway.

Holly witnessed multiple and varied hookups. The only two that didn't expand were Cameron and Future John. Cameron remained celibate by choice and Future John by the pressure from everyone else to 'stay away'. Cameron reminded him frequently that if he ever touched Savannah it would be the last female he would touch as a man. She wasn't bluffing. Future John didn't want part of his anatomy nailed to his bedroom door to remind him what he once was….

Bob's voice brought her back to reality.

"Trouble." Bob said.

Turn-on

What does one really see in another
That is the real question
To believe it is less than sexual
Is only a poor suggestion

One's appearance is the first clue
It will often make them desired
That's raw human instinct
In which one is soon mired

Time spent in close proximity
Changes the laws of nature
Each begins to see more in the other
Through the exchange of nomenclature

Often someone who meant nothing
Will soon become everything
Individually they could only chirp
Together they can harmonize and sing

Time slowly takes its toll
Changing each into a pawn
One will eventually turn on the other
Instead of being a turn-on

Nobody