Chapter 707

Put It Out

Cameron peeked out from the restroom. What she saw was extensive. So far no one seemed aware of her arrival. She went back to the bathroom window and made sure the patrol she'd just avoided wasn't alerted to her presence. She saw they were further down the side of the building. They continue to move at the same speed. She was sure she hadn't been detected. She moved back through the restroom and looked around the short wall that blocked the entrance to the restroom. There was a lot of HK equipment staged there. There was a row of HK Tracks and a row of HK drones. It looked like all of them were ready to go active in a moment's notice.

Cameron checked the time. The HK Track she reprogrammed would go on the offensive in a short while. That meant the 'fireworks' would start soon. She needed to get moving.

She missed a transmission directed at her earlier when she'd shut her com off. She didn't want it to be heard by any Terminators. She knew that there needed to be some here somewhere.

She looked at the row of HK drones and the row of HK Tracks. The HK drones were going to be harder to get to unobserved. She would need to cross the central aisle in order to reach them.

There were a few people but none of them appeared to be a Terminator. Not all Terminators were readily apparent at first glance. Sometimes their behavior needed to be observed to confirm what they were.

They seemed to be in a mild state of panic. They hurriedly made phone calls and used their computers. Things seemed to not function for them properly. This in itself was going to cause some type of alert at some point soon. It was going to be seen as more than a glitch or some type of anomaly.

Cameron knew she needed to start moving to get some of the equipment disabled. This was all going to go ballistic very soon. She was going to have to start on the HK Tracks first. She would rather have started on the HK drones.

She moved down the row of HK Tracks and reprogrammed the furthest one away from the people. She checked her time again, it was running out. She started to disable the remaining HK Tracks. That is all she could do now as the time was all but gone. She was two thirds of the way through the row when she was spotted. There was a shout. She'd hoped to get further along before this happened. This wasn't what she'd wanted to happen. Now everyone was in danger. She ducked behind the closest HK Track for cover.

Minutes earlier:

Savannah was worried about Cameron. It was time to take some action. She didn't want to wait for the shooting to start. At that point, Cameron and Anna could be severely damaged. It was clear she was going to need to use some more of the resources available to her.

"Hank, I want you to follow the path that Cameron and Anna used and enter the compound." Savannah said.

Cammy looked at Savannah. She thought that Savannah put her in charge. She actually knew that this is what Savannah was going to do and try to act on her own.

"Cameron hasn't requested assistance." Cammy said.

Savannah didn't have access to any satellite maps or detailed photos but CamNet did. She'd quietly asked for her assistance and where the closest structure that could be set on fire near the front gate was at. She was given specific instructions. She asked that they be forwarded to Hank as well. She knew she was going to need some Terminator assistance. She didn't want to use Cammy yet.

"I'm taking preemptive action. The HK Track Cameron reprogrammed will go active soon. We should be inside before it does. I want Hank to start a fire in the outbuilding near the 'guard shack' by the gate." Savannah said. "It's a small structure."

Sarah paid attention to what was happening around her. She understood what Savannah was after. It was what they needed to be able to drive right up to the gate unopposed. Hopefully the guards wouldn't even realize what they looked at was a Trojan Horse and let them in with open arms.

"Savannah's right." Sarah said. "We need to do something. We have these people contained. The fire will draw them out into the open to investigate it or try to fight it. It will increase our kill ratio."

Savannah checked the time and also was updated by CamNet as to where their additional forces were at. The fire would serve to do three different things.

"It will also draw the attention of the two observation posts. The Mike Force can slip in and finish them off even easier." Savannah said. "They should be into position in minutes."

Cammy checked her time. She could see that Savannah came up with a good plan and it was time to enact it immediately.

"Go now and do it. We'll pick you up on the way in." Cammy said to Hank. "Make your way back to the road.

"Affirmative…." Hank said and took off running.

Cammy looked at Savannah and smiled. She kept a close eye on her to make sure that she didn't slip away on her own. She wasn't going to allow that. She would make sure that someone went with her.

"That was good thinking." Cammy said.

Savannah hoped so, she knew they might be going from the frying pan into the fire too. It was a risk she was willing to take. She thought about the statement that just ran through her mind and smiled to herself. They actually were about to go from the frying pan into the fire. She hoped it was the Grays that would be the ones who took the heat though.

A few minutes later Hank reported he would have the fire started in one minute and fifty three seconds.

Cammy sent out a warning to Cameron and Anna. She hoped they would hear it, even if they were unable to respond.

"Cameron, Anna, we'll arrive with a distraction in four minutes." Cammy said. "The HK Track will go hunting in six minutes. The plan is to draw as many of the enemy out into the open as possible. Hopefully that will draw them away from you as well."

There was no response from either of them.

Cammy looked at Savannah but didn't say anything.

That bothered Savannah even more.

"The Mike Force is ready to move down the hillside." John Henry reported. "They'll almost be to the observation posts when the fire starts and down to the target area when the two trucks arrive."

Hank moved into position by the old wooden building. He removed the explosive charge from a Thermite grenade. When it detonated, the Thermite would start a fire. It would consume the wood rapidly. There wouldn't be a loud explosion without the explosive charge.

"The fire's been started." Hank said. "I'm moving back to the road."

Cammy felt that they were close enough to the time. She wanted the trucks to get closer.

"Let's roll." Cammy said.

The two trucks lumbered off toward the old steel mill. They would arrive in two minutes, in spectacular fashion.

If everything worked as planned, the Grays would actually open the gate for them and welcome them in.

Cameron ducked back as a group of Grays moved towards her. She'd expected to be confronted but they didn't even look at her or even in her direction, they were headed outside. She looked in the direction they were headed and saw flames outside when the door was opened. She knew that was the distraction that Savannah and Cammy orchestrated. She smiled to herself. That was the perfect opening to get the rest of the team into the compound unopposed.

She quickly made it the rest of the way down the row of HK Tracks and disabled all of them. It was a few seconds after that when she heard the sound of sirens. There were fire trucks on their way towards the old steel mill. She could see the red lights as they flashed through the transom windows high up in the walls.

That was sure to draw everyone's attention. It would be directed outside and away from where she was at. The distraction allowed her to move from the row of HK Tracks to the other side of the building where there was a row of HK drones. She viewed the HK drones as the biggest threat but she hadn't been able to get over to where they were at previously because of all the Grays. Everything was different now.

Cameron quickly crossed the room to the HK drones and started on the first one. She'd just finished it when there was a sound that came from behind her. She was sure that was a sign of bad news. She was right.

She turned to face the threat. It was a Terminator….

It wasn't what she'd hoped for. She thought maybe she should have been a little more attentive. She knew that there needed to be Terminators here somewhere and there were.

All bets were off now.

Earlier:

The guard at the gate tried to fight from falling asleep. They'd taken his phone away from him previously because they'd caught him using it twice. Now he was just bored and kept nodding off. He hoped they didn't catch him doing that. They'd really be angry then. The Terminators could be real jerks sometimes. He'd seen more than one of his fellow compatriots gets slapped around pretty good by a Terminator.

Now his head snapped up and he saw one of the outbuildings close by was on fire and it was growing bigger by the second. He was sure that he must have been asleep when it started because it was big right now. He wondered how he was going to be able to explain it.

He picked up his radio.

"Alpha One, this is Bravo Two, we have a fire burning near the gate." Bravo Two said.

Alpha One didn't see what the big deal was.

"Put it out." Alpha One said. "It must have just started."

Bravo Two could see it was more than he could control.

"I need help." Bravo Two said. "It is getting bigger and bigger."

Bravo Two really wondered how long it'd been burning before he noticed it. He wondered how it started and why it was getting so big, so fast.

Bravo Two was about to head toward the fire when he saw Grays from inside the first structure come out. A few of them carried fire extinguishers. He also heard the sound of fire trucks. That was fast, he thought. He looked over at the outbuilding on fire and it now spread to a second outbuilding. Now he really wondered how long it'd been burning before he'd noticed it. He must have really dozed off. There would be hell to pay for this. Those Terminator bullies didn't like publicity.

The two fire trucks were almost there. He could see all the firefighters in full gear in them and on them. He thought about calling Alpha One and ask if he should open the gate or not. He looked over at the fire. The two buildings burnt ferociously. It was clear to him they were going to need a lot of water to put the fire out. He decided to act on his own. He opened the gate and both fire trucks rolled in. It was loud and looked impressive with their lights and sirens on.

He saw one fire fighter on the rear step off the back of the truck. It was a woman. He could see that she looked HOT, even with all that firefighting gear on. It was clear that she packed a set of knockers that just wouldn't quit. With all that gear on that she wore, he couldn't get a good look at them at all.

Gail moved closer to him.

"How did this start?" Gail asked him. "When did this start?"

Bravo Two really didn't have any idea whatsoever. He'd only noticed it just a few minutes ago. No, it wasn't even that long. Based on the size of the fire, he was sure that it must have been burning for some time.

"I don't know." Bravo Two said. "I only noticed it a short time ago."

Gail looked at him with disbelief on her face.

"We got the call ten minutes ago." Gail said. "Were you asleep or something?"

Now the guard was really worried. He was sure one of the Terminators would kill him.

He was right but not how he thought it would be.

Gail was close enough now to grab him and snap his neck. She tossed his rag doll body back into the shack. She saw that the two fire trucks blocked the Grays between them and the fire. They were corralled in an 'L' shape 'kill zone' now.

She saw Savannah and Sarah were still in the driver's seats of the two fire trucks. The other Terminators asked them to drive. They thought it would give them the best protection. They now covered the entrance from the building. She moved to join the other 'firefighters' on the ground. Each Terminator moved into a position so there was a Gray in front of them.

Cammy saw that everyone was in position.

"Now…." They all heard Cammy say.

The six Terminators all grabbed the unsuspecting Gray in front of them and terminated them. Everything was done silently. No shots were fired. It all happened very quickly.

Savannah looked around from her position in the driver's seat of the first fire truck. She watched everything go down even better than they'd planned on. She was sure the things were going to heat up and it wasn't from the fire burning on the other side of her.

The Mike Force moved down the hill and was behind the observation posts. The two Grays edged forward to look at the fire burning down below them near the main gate of the large complex. They watched as the two fire trucks arrived. They never saw what was about to come from behind them.

They were both grabbed and terminated.

Tom took up a sniping position on the area below, while Dan got a Stinger ready. Frank set another Stinger on the rocks between Tom and Dan. He and the other Terminators went down the hill and converged on the back of the first building. They were almost there when they saw Anna wave to them and enter. They would be there in seconds to back her up.

The roving patrol was at the furthest point from the fire when it started. They hurried to see what happened. They wondered what idiot was responsible for the fire. It was probably one of the new guys going outside for a smoke and threw the smoldering butt away carelessly. They knew there's going to be Hell to pay for that. The three guards ran past the HK Track when they heard it start to move behind them. Good, they thought. They would have backup if things went hot and this was really some kind of an attack. Since there were fire trucks at the scene, it appeared whatever it was going to be very complicated and result in some type of investigation later on. They didn't think that the Terminators there were going to be able to kill two truckloads of firemen and pretend like nothing happened. There was bound to be some record as to where the fire trucks were dispatched to. Someone needed to make a report. They didn't know who that was. This was obviously going to get very complicated for somebody. They were glad they were on patrol at the time this happened, it wouldn't be them. They moved forward with the reassuring sound of the HK Track close behind them.

They didn't know the HK Track now worked for the Resistance thanks to Cameron's reprogramming. They would become its first targets.

Cameron knew she was about to be in a confrontation with a Terminator. They were all life and death situations. She tried to pull her Taser as she turned but something slammed into her and sent her sprawling. Whatever that was, was unexpected and caught her off guard even more so than the Terminator that'd come up behind her. She wasn't sure what happened or what she'd been hit with. She was stunned a little. When she looked up from her new position sprawled on the floor, there was more bad news.

There were three Terminators there now that faced her and one of them was a 'Metal Bitch'.

The Terminator that knocked her to the ground spoke.

"She's Metal." One of the Terminators said.

The 'Metal Bitch' looked at Cameron with disgust. She spoke to the two male Terminators.

"Grab her and we'll reprogram her." The 'Metal Bitch' said. "She'll be the new 'Metal Whore'. She looks like a cheap slut anyway. Make sure you use some acid on her face to disfigure it. I don't want any of the Grays be captivated by her appearance. Make sure you use a lot of it too."

"Affirmative…." The two male Terminator said in unison.

Cameron was a little disorientated after the initial attack. She'd heard what the 'Metal Bitch' said about her and what was to be done to her.

Her sub routines all began to kick back in as the two male Terminators grabbed her.

One of the Terminators looked up.

"I hear drones." The other Terminator said. "All of ours are all still parked."

The smile evaporated from the face of the 'Metal Bitch'. She realized what this really was.

"Tear her head off." The 'Metal Bitch' said. "This is an attack."

The 'Metal Bitch' figured that the Grays could still use her inanimate headless figure for their pleasure. She headed for the side where the fire was burning. That put her closest to the HK Track Cameron reprogrammed inside the building. It would become active in seconds. She attempted to activate something she held as she ran but it didn't work.

John Henry already activated the jamming field. It was now in full effect.

Anna entered the back of the first building and saw a female running towards the front. There was a commotion going on by a row of HK drones. There were two Terminators and they'd just overpowered Cameron. One seemed to have her pinned, while the other was about to rip her head off. She could see Cameron was seconds away from termination.

Cameron thrashed violently and broke the hold. She lunged into both of them. She was able to knock them off balance. She came up with her Taser but one of them tackled her and the Taser went flying. That was followed by a Terminator flying into the side of an HK drone. She'd just kicked him off of her with her legs.

Anna knew she needed to try and draw at least one of the Terminators off of Cameron. She pulled out her Glock and fired at the closest Terminator to Cameron. She hoped to draw his attention and make it known there was a new threat that faced him. She held her Taser in her other hand. She hope to get closer to the Terminator who'd ended up being slammed into the side of an HK drone.

Now it looked like that disturbance, or the gunfire from her, caused the HK drone to become active. It now started to power up.

Cameron was still in a death struggle with the Terminator she was fighting.

This looked like it was about to go from bad to worse.

Put Everything You Find

We all seem to wait
For the stars to be aligned
All that ever produces
It to keep or heart and soul confined

It is really happening in our head
Deep within our claustrophobic mind
Waiting endlessly for loves letter
Special delivered, sealed and signed

We wait with our head in the sand
From life we have resigned
Our own perceived shortcoming
Is how ourselves we have defined

Is not the sum of two greater
Than the sum of one when combined
Everyone already knows this
Yet we need ourselves remind

Look into life's smorgasbord
Your heart no longer need remain blind
On the table
Put everything you find

Nobody