Chapter 469

Temporal Ticket

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Future Timeline - Undetermined Error:

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Savannah hid in the tall grass. She knew someone was about to find her. She was sure it was Scavengers. She knew what was coming next. Vanna and Jesse both warned her of what would happen in the future, not maybe, but it would happen. They didn't know a single female that wasn't assaulted at least a few times. Most of them it was more. For them it was a lot more. Now it was going to happen to her. She'd heard the stories, some of which they said they could never tell. She even experienced nightmares about it before. It wasn't supposed to be as bad of a 'problem' in Cameron's future but it still existed on a smaller scale. It appeared somehow she'd just drawn the short straw. She knew all the other versions of 'Savannah Weaver' went through this. Now it was her turn. She briefly glanced down at her perfect figure and knew it would never look the same once they were 'done'. She'd be lucky to live. Depending on how badly she was mutilated, she might be luckier to die.

She gripped the sharpened stone Cammy made for her. She could feel the sharp edges almost cut into her fingers. Cammy dulled them some where she needed to hold it. Vanna told her not to resist and do whatever they said. That wasn't how Cameron raised her. She wasn't ready to roll over. It was time for action. She decided she was going to fight. She would try to hurt as many as she could first, maybe they would kill her then. She wasn't going to submit to anyone. They could have her dead body but they were never going to have her.

The movement was closer now. Savannah was pumped full of adrenalin. She felt it surge through her body. It would give her extra strength or speed for a short time. Stab, slash, gouge, run and run some more. She would try for the juggler in the neck or the eyes first and then sprint. She would try to draw them away from Cammy. Cammy should hear the commotion and come to aid her, unless they were there to capture Cammy. Then Cammy needed to run. She decided maybe she should buy time for Cammy to escape. She would need to sacrifice herself so that just maybe, Cammy could get away. Earlier Cammy wanted her to destroy her chip. She knew she could never do that. She would rather trade her own life.

Savannah was tired of waiting. She decided she was going to attack. If not her – who? If not now – when? She gripped the sharp stone and readied herself. Cameron and Sarah trained her for years. They'd trained her to fight and survive, not to submit or surrender. She held a weapon. She could use her hands and feet. She needed to try to get one of their weapons if she could. She knew that she could take hits and still stay in the fight. It was all mental. Even if she was shot in the heart she could fight for fifteen more seconds until the blood no longer reached her brain. She could take one more of the enemy down in that time. Sarah told her you take the pain and fight harder. Don't stop until you're dead - Fight.

There was aloud crunch of brush.

They'd found her.

This was it!

The time for thinking was over.

"Run, Cammy, run." Savannah screamed as she sprang to her feet.

She searched for a target.

The fear was gone.

It was time to FIGHT.

Savannah was a weapon….

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Resistance Base - Current Timeline:

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John Henry was concerned with all the temporal activity at Cameron's base.

There were still operations to conduct.

It seemed that John and Cameron along with most of the Metal girls were caught up in whatever they were doing.

He'd detected temporal activity that was outside the scope of what CamNet was doing. CamNet indicated that activity wasn't related to her. She informed him that Gail and Jesse were not far from where he detected the activity. They were near one of the incursions.

He was surprised that CamNet told him Gail and Jesse were near there. He wasn't sure what Gail and Jesse did when they were out. No one seemed to know. They never actually seemed to go anywhere or do anything. They never talked about it either.

He'd asked Gail about it specifically before.

"We do what Jesse wants." Gail said. "Our private time belongs to us."

Cameron warned him before that everyone's private time was important to them. He was not to interfere with it.

He dispatched Steve and Tom to go check it out. He did think he should warn Jesse and Gail there could be a problem near them.

Earlier:

Gail and Jesse waited in a back alley. A cat approached where they were concealed. It paused, arched its back and hissed. It then ran off back the way it'd come.

Gail looked at Jesse and shrugged her shoulders. Animals didn't care much her. She didn't know why people liked to keep them as pets. They didn't seem very intelligent and didn't contribute to anything useful. They were just there.

"Easy, love." Jesse said. "It was just another 'hisser'."

A door on the other side of the trash dumpster they hid behind opened. A man staggered out. He fastened his pants as he lumbered away.

"Do you want me to terminate him?" Gail asked.

Jesse did want him terminated. If he'd come their way he would be in the dumpster right now. His next stop would be the city dump.

"We'll get him another time." Jesse said. "I want what's inside the building."

Jesse carried a multi-shot Tasers as did Gail. They each carried an M9 pistol as well. Gail carried a few Thermite grenades and a satchel charge. There were heaver weapons in their SUV along with additional explosives. It was parked a few blocks away.

Two men approached from the direction the staggering man went. They were laughing and would shove each other every now and then. They approached the door on the other side of the dumpster.

Jesse pulled out her M9 and her Taser.

Gail held a Taser as well. Her other hand was free.

"It's Showtime." Jesse whispered.

Gail nodded and they moved out from behind the dumpster as the door into the building opened to let the two men in.

"Stay behind me." Gail whispered.

Jesse knew the drill.

Gail moved up just as the door was about to close. She tucked her Taser away to free up both of her hands. She shoved the door open with enough force to knock whoever was behind it down. They sprawled on the floor. The man's head tilted over at a crazy angle. The two men that just entered looked back. Before they could do or say anything, she grabbed both of them and slammed them hard onto the ground.

Jesse could hear bones break. There were three men down now that didn't move. It was a good bet that none of them would ever move again.

They moved past the 'reception' area. There were a few dirty chairs there. None of them were the same. There was a second door.

Gail moved up to the second door and looked back at Jesse.

Jesse nodded.

Gail pushed on the door and the door frame splintered with a loud crack. They went into a hall.

There was a big bald headed bouncer that stood just inside of it. He attempted to raise a pistol. Gail punched him hard in the chest. His splintered ribs were driven into his crushed heart and lungs. He died silently as his body shot down the hall and slammed into the far wall.

Jesse opened the first door on the right. There was a female lying on a bed, she was chained to it by her ankle. She didn't look over at them, her glassy eyes started at the ceiling. She was either in shock or strung out on drugs.

Gail reached down and snapped the chain.

Jesse gently slapped the female's face. She blinked and looked over.

"Get ready to leave, love." Jesse said. "Put some clothes on."

They left her and went back into the hall. They moved to the next room.

Gail opened the door and went in. There was a man by a female.

"Kill him." Jesse said.

Gail stepped forward and rabbit punched the man in the back of the neck and snapped his spine. She threw his lifeless body in the corner. She snapped the chain on the female's ankle.

The female looked over at them.

"Get dressed." Jesse said.

The girl looked as glassy eyed as the other one did.

They moved to the next door. They could hear someone choking. It was followed by laughter.

Gail entered the room. Jesse was right behind her. There was a man next to a female. One of his hands was around her throat and he appeared to choke her on and off.

Jesse fired her Taser. She wanted this one alive. He dropped against the female and fell off of her onto the floor. Gail quickly zip tied him. She used his underwear to gag him.

Jesse told the female to get dressed. She was strung out as well but not as much as the other two females were.

The next room was empty. There was blood on the bed in the area where a person's head would be. It appeared that someone was beaten or killed there.

The next room held several other females. They only wore underwear. They left them there for now and moved back to the office area.

Gail crashed through the door.

There were two men in there. There were piles of money on a table and an open safe. They both looked up in astonishment. They went for weapons. Jesse brought both of them down with her Taser.

"Prepare them for justice." Jesse said.

Gail bound and gagged them.

Jesse did a quick search of the place. There was no one else there. She found one deceased female. Her face was savagely beaten. She found a box full of female clothes. She tossed a pile of clothes into the room with the four topless females.

"Get dressed." Jesse said. "You're free."

The females all started to ask questions.

"Get dressed and go." Jesse said. "The building is on fire. Help the girls in the other rooms. Three of them are still alive."

Gail came out of the office area with the cash in a box.

"There are seven of them." Jesse said. "The eighth one is dead."

The girls were dressed now and left the room. They stopped and helped the other girls that were drugged.

Jesse stooped them before they went out.

"Here's some cash." Jesse said. "You can go to the police if you want or seek medical attention. The police will take your money away, the doctors won't."

Gail handed the females each a stack of money.

The females looked at the stacks of cash.

"This is thousands of dollars." One female said.

Jesse wanted them away.

"Take it and go." Jesse said. "The building is on fire. There's a van with the keys in it at the end of the alley to your left if one of you wants to drive the others away from here or to seek aid."

The girls hurried out the door.

Jesse checked the time. They'd only been inside for just over three minutes so far.

The three men that they'd tied up were conscious again.

Gail armed and tossed a Thermite grenade into the office. The muffled screams intensified as the burning Thermite coated them.

One was tossed into the room with the man who'd choked the female. His thrashing increased as the Thermite found his flesh as well.

One more was tossed into the 'reception' area as they left. None of the three men there moved as the flames began to consume them. Gail shoved the dumpster in front of the door.

Both of their phones rang.

"It's John Henry." Gail said. "It's an alert."

They quickly turned their coms back on. They were off so they wouldn't be tracked as part of the Resistance on their own time.

John Henry told them CamNet informed him they were near where there was a temporal incursion. He gave them the location. They were very close. Steve and Tom were sent to investigate but were not as close as they were.

Gail told him to suppress any emergency response to the building they'd just left and not to ask any questions about it.

They hurried back to their SUV. The van they told the females about was gone. They didn't see any of them wandering around. They hurried off to where John Henry told them Steve and Tom were headed.

They spotted a naked man running down an alley.

"I see one." Gail said.

They followed him into the alley. Jesse slammed her door into him as Gail passed by and knocked him down.

Gail stopped and they got out.

"It could be a Terminator." Gail warned.

Jesse hit him with the last shot of her Taser.

Gail bound and gagged him as they'd done with the other men.

"He'll tell me everything we want to know." Jesse said.

They loaded him into the back of their SUV and drove off. They drove around the area more to see what they could find.

Steve and Tom arrived after awhile. They let them take over the search.

John Henry asked them about the man.

"He died when we apprehended him." Jesse said.

The bound man looked up with wide eyes.

Gail looked over at Jesse.

Jesse looked at Gail and smiled. She looked back at the man. She took out her knife. The bound man could see there was fresh blood on it.

"We'll get rid of the body…." Jesse said.

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Cameron's Future Timeline:

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Cameron knew Future Allison wrote her a blank check. She could fill in any amount or anything she wanted and Future Allison would cover it. Future Allison was willing to do 'anything' for her, even give up her baby to Duplicate Cameron as her own.

She wanted what Future Allison offered her. She wanted it from the first day they spent together when she'd freed Future Allison from Skynet. Future Allison didn't trust her yet then. She still thought it was a Skynet trick of some kind. She did everything for Future Allison out of love. Future Allison was a part of her, inside of her. Future Allison was part of her and what made her who she was.

Cameron taught Future Allison many things and how to make things and do things. She gave Future Allison the proper education she'd lacked. Future Allison exceeded in everything, just as Her Savannah did. She was with Future Allison for nearly a year when she'd first rescued her. She remade Future Allison from a scared 'girl' into a fine, skillful, educated 'woman'. She'd made Future Allison into the woman she wished she could be. She did the same for Her Savannah. She made them the best they could be in 'everything'. It was her goal to create the 'perfect female'. She was able to see they both were that. She'd created what she could never be, 'the perfect woman', the perfect REAL woman.

The true beauty in doing that was it allowed to girls to be all they could be. Everything they did was always within them. She allowed them to find their true selves. The learning ability was theirs alone. She only guided them and provided the knowledge. She took this one step further with Young Allison. She was given this opportunity from the time she was a very small child. Young Allison would one day be the finest of them all, know the most and have the most ability. She wanted to make Young Allison the human version of herself.

Cameron was deeply conflicted with what to do. She could grab the 'brass ring' NOW or wait and hope the 'Natural Order would actually happen with John, Savannah, Young Allison and her.

Eventually Future Allison shared her private 'moments' with Future Savannah and Future John with her. Future John previously shared his private 'moments' with Future Allison with to her. They both talked of how they met and fell in love, even with the age difference. It always bothered Future John he was so much older than Future Allison. Future Savannah was closer to his age by a few years but still much younger. Future John was always afraid that Future Allison would find someone 'younger'. How could he blame her?

At that time, on her return into the future, Cameron loved Future John and Her John, her husband of one night. That's why she wanted to be with Her John one night before she left. She wanted what Future John and Future Allison shared. She never imagined Her John would ask her to 'marry' him. She knew now that was a mistake. It disrupted the 'Natural Order'. Now Her John would most likely never 'know' an Allison or Savannah, even with four sets of them. She stole that from John. She'd stolen his future happiness. She stole his future love. She'd stolen John's - future. She was a thief. She'd taken what was never supposed to be hers. She could never face Her John again. She'd destroyed his future, not protected it.

Cameron shared verbally her programming with Future Allison on ways to 'please' someone, both male and female. Future Allison asked her to show her and teach her. They could practice and learn 'together'. She said she wasn't ready for that - yet. Future Allison never gave up and told her it would happen one day with HER. Future Allison said she knew it would be with HER. She also hoped it would be.

She knew now it could be. They could leave here, get HER Savannah and go. She would have Sheila send them into the past and delete all records of where and when it was. She would have Sheila erase she'd even sent them. Sheila would only think she'd been running tests when asked about why the TDE was used. Nobody would know.

Cameron knew she wanted this more than anything. She decided this is what she must have done before. She lived her life with Future Allison and HER Savannah in the past. After they died, she went to New Mexico and went into standby. She knew she waited years so she could replace herself in 1999 and live her life over again.

She once found herself in a cemetery in front of two of the most beautiful graves she'd ever seen. She didn't know why she was there or even how she got there. She was just there. She'd suppressed this memory. Now it was back. She could see it all again. She looked at an image in her files.

My Beloved Allison – Young forever and forever Young….

My Beloved Savannah – Weaver of love into hearts and minds….

The memories began to break through. She believed when she returned to past that the TDE at the Resistance base would now work into the past again. She must have done this before, at least in one of her lifetimes. She was certain of it. There was still no actual proof.

Cameron knew what her future was. It was as it always was. It was what she always wanted. It was with her true lovers. The ones who loved her for what she was, because that is how she was. She was a machine and they loved her more than ANYTHING – Because that is WHO she was.

She didn't need to perish fighting Skynet and end her existence. There were others that could take over the fight and make the sacrifices. It didn't ALWAYS have to be her. Freedom from the pain and torment didn't have to be termination. Cameron found a ticket to ride and she was going to use it.

Ticket

Some people are given
A ticket to ride
That often comes with strings
With which they must abide

It soon becomes evident to all
There is no free ride
When it's time for the fare to be collected
Some try to run and hide

The toll itself when due
Is more than most imagined it'd be
Which only proves nothing is free
There is always more than one can see

One needs to think ahead of time
What it is really all about
It's really all a system of barter
That one should question and doubt

It's all about what part on a body
That is like a wicket
One needs to prepare for a hard ride
When they accept that 'free' ticket

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