Chapter 708

Fire Fighters

The Resistance Terminators killed all the Grays that came out to fight the fire. They were ready to support whatever areas needed additional assistance as soon as they were identified. They were still within the 'L' shape of the two fire trucks.

Savannah and Sarah watched the door to the first building where Cameron indicated she was going to go inside of. Seconds later they heard gunfire from inside of it. They both raised their weapons as they searched for a target. Whatever was happening inside there was going down now.

They saw a female open the door. She saw them and went back inside before they could fire at her.

Savannah recognized what she saw as a threat. More than likely if there was a female with the Grays, she was probably a Terminator. From their past experience the only females associated with Grays usually were a Terminator or someone that possessed some type of specialty skill or ability to help Skynet. Other than that, the rest of the females associated with the Grays were usually tied to a bed naked. They'd already encountered far too much of that. She didn't want to wait around to see what happened with the female Terminator. It was time for action.

"Let's go." Savannah said. "That wasn't Cameron. It probably was a 'Metal Bitch'."

Savannah opened the door of the fire truck and jumped down. Her M4 tracked in front of her. She saw Sarah do the same thing from the fire truck next to her. They moved in conjunction with each other.

They'd just started to move when they heard the distinctive sound of a minigun fire. They knew their team didn't bring one, so that was bad news. Cameron reported HK Tracks earlier, so they must be active now. Cameron said that she'd reprogram an HK Track to work for the Resistance team. They needed better identification of where the minigun gunfire came from.

"Sarah, stay back." Savannah said. "We need to identify if that is hostile or friendly fire."

Savannah was in close when HK Tracks attacked before. She knew how deadly they could be. Cameron and Cammy were both almost chewed up on that raid. For that matter, she almost was too. She still remembered the confined space she was in. It was some type of work trough that was built into the floor of the building. An HK Track was literally right above her on top of a metal grate. She remembered all the hot brass from the minigun that landed around her as it fired.

Savannah and Sarah retreated back to the fire trucks. The Terminators on their team all searched for the HK Track as well…. They knew there was more than one there.

They heard it fire a second time. It was followed by a long fading scream.

They knew that wasn't anyone on their team. Savannah and Sarah were the only humans with them and they were both accounted for. That seemed to indicate that the HK Track just fired on a group of Gray's, probably more than once.

They didn't know it was a patrol of Gray's who thought the HK Track was going to back them up. They never imagined it was going to gun them down.

Moments ago:

The 'Metal Bitch' headed outside. She knew they were under attack. As soon as she went out she saw two 'fire fighters' with weapons trying to track her. She figured they must be part of the attack force. This all looked like some elaborate well thought out and planned attack. The enemy forces were already inside their compound. She'd experienced trouble before with the Gray that was assigned to the gate for the day. She would personally terminate him when she got the chance since he allowed this to happen. She really didn't like Grays. She disliked all humans actually. They were clearly inferior to machines in every respect. She really didn't know why Skynet fooled with any of them. It would be much more efficient if they just built more Terminators.

She headed back inside to avoid being shot at. She heard the gunfire behind her right before she'd exited. She knew it came from the area where the 'Metal Whore' was. With the new threat of a large force outside, she would take her chances with the 'Metal Whore' that they'd tried to terminate. She saw a second 'Metal Whore' with red hair assist the first 'Metal Whore'. She thought the new one looked rather young. It made her wonder if she was patterned after someone specific. She saved an image to her files and would see if she could track down whoever that was later on and terminate them.

Now that there was a second 'Metal Whore', she decided she would personally deactivate both of them. It seemed to bother her because both of them looked very beautiful. She knew they were both 'better looking' than she was. That was even more of a reason to deactivate them and get them reprogrammed as 'Metal Whores' for the Grays. She knew the Grays went through human females too quickly. None of the human females seemed to live longer than two days. She did wonder about some of the body parts that the Grays cut off of them. They didn't seem to serve any real purpose in the reproductive process. She'd checked herself out in that same area with a mirror and concluded that there was way too much going on down there.

As she got closer to where they were, there was now a group of 'men' that entered the rear of the building. They must be even more of the attacking force. There was minigun fire from outside. The 'Metal Bitch' smiled. The HK Track must have attacked the hostile force. The group that entered from the back were all armed and looked like they were all Terminators. She decided to head back out the front. The HK Track would cover her. Just before she exited she saw the end HK Track became active as well. She viewed that as more good news. It should cover her rear. She felt confident now with two HK Tracks that would back her up.

She was unaware that Cameron previously reprogrammed both of them.

The Resistance group at the fire trucks, all pulled back at the sound of minigun fire. There was the second burst of minigun fire and the scream. Maybe that was the one Cameron reprogrammed. They were unsure. They knew an HK Track would chop the fire trucks to shreds in seconds if they came under attack.

The 'Metal Bitch' dashed out of the front of the building again. Savannah raised her M4 to fire but an HK Track smashed through the wall behind the female. It was quite a surprise to her.

Savannah ducked back between the fire trucks. The HK Track seemed to face her head on. It appeared to have her 'zeroed' but moved on after the fleeing female. She was aware that that one must also be reprogrammed. She knew that was another close one.

Cammy was still behind the fire trucks when she spied the female exit the building. By the way the female moved she recognized her for what she was, a Terminator.

"It's a 'Metal Bitch'. I have her." Cammy said. "Savannah, help Cameron. Hank, and Larry, I need you to follow me."

Savannah headed toward the building Cameron was in. She saw Gail was behind her. She knew Gail was there to back her up.

Sarah, Holly and Hanna headed around the other side of the building. They wanted to try and get ahead of the Metal Bitch if she cut back across the far end.

Sarah shouted at Holly and Hanna.

"Both of you go ahead at full speed." Sarah said. "I'll catch up."

Hanna took off but Holly stayed with her.

Holly knew that she couldn't risk Sarah being alone in an area full of Grays with an unknown number of Terminators. She didn't know how many HK Tracks still belong to the enemy. She would do what she could to protect and shield Sarah as much as possible.

Sarah wanted both of them to go but she realized Savannah probably told Holly to stay with her no matter what. There was no point to argue it. It did make her feel a little better to have the extra protection and firepower. Either way she was there to bring the fight to the enemy. She didn't enjoy being in combat but it was clear that she missed it somewhat. She would rather be the one that faced the enemy than either one of her two children. It was her job as their mother to protect both John and Jan and that's what she always tried to do and would do going forward.

Cameron dodged away as the Terminator turned to face Anna when she shot at him. She grabbed her Taser from the ground and 'zapped' him. She saw Anna already zapped the other one. Both of the hostile Terminators were down. She really wanted to get her hands on the 'Metal Bitch'.

The new problem and immediate threat was the HK drone next to her that started to power up. She'd lost her Glock and satchel in the struggle earlier as well. The HK drone started to lift off. She made a jump for it but missed and sprawled on the floor. Much to her surprise the now soundless drone fell in her direction. She saw the Mike Force was inside and one of them must have thrown a 'sticky shocker' onto the HK drone to deactivate it. It was now in the clutches of gravity and she was right below it.

Cameron rolled away and the HK drone landed next to her with a loud metallic clang.

She quickly got up to see an HK Track crash through the front of the structure as it went after the fleeing 'Metal Bitch'. She looked at the male Terminators.

"The rest of these drones need to be deactivated." Cameron said as she headed for the front. She wanted the 'Metal Bitch'.

The HK drone on the end that was closest to where the 'Metal Bitch' exited began to up and started to lift off. It turned to face her. She quickly looked for a place to go to dodge its weapons. She heard gunfire and saw Savannah and Gail fire Coltan rounds into the engines. The HK drone wobbled and tilted and then impacted with a crash. Gail was on top of it in a flash to deactivate its weapons systems.

"Gail, help deactivate the other HK drones. I already did all the HK Tracks." Cameron said. "I want that 'Metal Bitch'."

Savannah tossed Cameron her M4.

"Let's go." Savannah said.

Savannah picked Gail's M4 up from the ground. Gail dropped it to clamber onto the struggling HK drone. She stayed right behind Cameron.

Cameron really wanted to get her hands on the 'Metal Bitch'. She wasn't sure if it was because the 'Metal Bitch' wanted to make her a 'Metal Whore' or if it was because she wanted to dump acid on her face to destroy it. She wanted all of the Resistance team to damage the 'Metal Bitch' as little as possible.

"I want that 'Metal Bitch' intact." Cameron said over her com.

The 'Metal Bitch' heard the HK Track crash through the wall behind her. She glanced back as she ran toward the original sound of minigun fire. The HK Track should give her covering fire and protect her.

The HK Track that crashed through the wall after she exited looked over the two fire trucks and the people there and then turned to follow her. She could see it tracked her to attack her.

'Damn'. The 'Metal Bitch' thought. 'That 'Metal Whore' must have done something to it.'

She saw one of the Grays drag himself on the ground up ahead. A burst of minigun fire tore into him. He was nearly torn in two by the gunfire.

'Damn'. The 'Metal Bitch' thought. 'That 'Metal Whore' must have done something to the other HK Track too. She headed up between the next two buildings to avoid it. She really hoped that she could destroy the 'Metal Whore' herself along with the rest of the attacking force.

The ground ten feet in front of her exploded in a shower of dirt and the report from a heavy weapon followed. Two more rounds hit the ground in front of her. It was clear that way was blocked. She realized they were trying to capture her. She headed toward the wall of the third building and crashed through it. She saw the 'Metal Whore' come around the corner after her with two male Terminators, now she was wearing a firefighter's suit somehow. She checked her file as she ran. It showed it was the same 'Metal Whore'. She tried to determine why she would put on the firefighter's uniform. Those suits were designed to give the firefighters limited protection against flames in a burning building. It made her wonder if they had something planned for her and were trying to lead her into it. She figured she deal with that issue when it actually arose.

There was a lot here that didn't make sense to her. All she knew was there was some well thought out and elaborate plan that the attack force used. They must have spent days perfecting it, based on how well it appeared to have worked. She knew she was going to have to be creative and fast thinking to avoid capture or destruction. As far as she could tell, everyone else was down from her group. There was no one seen anywhere except the dead.

Cammy wanted Cameron and the rest of the team to know where she was at what the situation currently was.

"Cameron, I'm between the second and third building." Cammy said. "The 'Metal Bitch' just crashed through the wall into the third building. She knows that we're trying to capture her intact."

Cameron quickly evaluated the information. More than likely if the 'Metal Bitch' crashed through one wall she wouldn't hesitate to crash through another one. She didn't know if they would be able to capture her at this point without severe damage. She didn't want her to get away.

"Go to the far side between the third and fourth buildings. I want that 'Metal Bitch'." Cameron said.

Cammy motioned for Cameron's Terminators to follow her.

"Larry and Hank are with me." Cammy said.

Cameron wanted to give Cammy a heads up about what she would encounter.

"Have one remain on the east side and watch the office windows at the front. There is a second reprogrammed HK Track there as well." Cameron said.

Cammy looked behind her at the HK Track that was there.

"There's one that followed me." Cammy said. "It thought I was you."

"Have it cover the north end and you can enter the building from there." Cameron said. "Savannah is with me. We're going to enter from the side where the 'Metal Bitch' crashed through the wall."

Hannah already made it around to the north side of the buildings. She saw that there was no immediate threat. She heard where Cameron and Cammy were headed and went in that direction herself.

"We're coming around the north side from the west." Hanna said. "Sarah and Holly are with me. They're a little ways behind me."

Cameron was glad to hear that news. It would give Cammy additional support as she entered the building from the north side

"Have Holly and Sarah cover the north end and west side. You go in with Cammy." Cameron said.

"I'm on it. That's what we'll do then." Hanna said.

The 'Metal Bitch' knew she needed to get away from there fast. They somehow placed a sniper to cover the north side, so that way was out. She should have expected as much when they had trouble at the one outpost earlier. Obviously both of the outposts were down now. She decided to continue through the building between the empty containers and crash through the wall of this building and through the wall of the next building. That would put her in the fourth building. She hoped at that point to be ahead of her pursuers so she'd be able to lose them.

She was aware the 'Metal Whore' followed her. It still puzzled her as to why she wore a firefighter's outfit. She moved between a row of containers and crashed through the east wall. A minigun opened up. It forced her back inside. It looked like she was now boxed in. The time to evade was over. It was time to fight. She still didn't understand how their entire operation was taken down in a matter of minutes as well as all their HK equipment disabled or reprogrammed.

Cameron received the reports from around building three. It appeared that the 'Metal Bitch' was contained in building three now. The trick would be to keep her there until she could be deactivated. There were now Terminators at each end and on both sides of the building along with two HK Tracks. It didn't look like the 'Metal Bitch' was going anywhere.

"We have her trapped." Cameron said.

Savannah didn't want the 'Metal Bitch' to double back and exit through the same way that she'd entered.

"I'll remain here and cover this hole." Savannah said.

Cameron didn't think so. She didn't want Savannah on her own around the 'Metal Bitch'. She already proved to be very elusive and resourceful.

"Stay with me." Cameron said. "She's very slippery."

Gail and Anna along with the Resistance Terminators were able to deactivate the rest of the HK drones. They pulled the chips on the two hostel male Terminators that were captured. They wanted to reinforce Cameron and Savannah.

"Gail and I are headed your way." Anna said. "The hostile HK drones are all deactivated. The boys have started gathering the goods."

John Henry reported there was nothing in the air other than their drones and their drone on recon didn't show anything else arrive or around the area on the ground.

The Resistance drones covered the entire complex as they searched for any targets. The targets all appeared to be down except the one Cameron was after. It was only because Cameron wanted her intact that she wasn't already down. The drones tracked her every time she wasn't inside of a building. She's been locked up by more than one drone at the same time on more than one occasion.

John was aware of all the activity. It was one thing after another.

"That all sure happened fast." John said.

They both were aware how Cameron was almost deactivated and her head almost torn off.

"It was a close one for Cameron." John Henry said.

John didn't agree with Cameron's decision to not terminate the female Terminator. They already experience more than one chance to be able to do so. They had her zeroed when she was between two buildings too. Several of the drones locked her up as well.

"They should terminate that 'Metal Bitch' and not fool around trying to catch her." John said.

"You can issue the order." John Henry said.

John knew that would bring Cameron down on him if he countermanded her battlefield order. He didn't want to countermand Cameron's order but he considered doing it anyway the next time the female Terminator showed herself. The question now was if any of the Terminators or their drones would obey his order over Cameron's order. Maybe the thing to do was to ask Savannah to give the order. He decided to check on the progress of the additional troops that they'd sent to reinforce the operation.

"How soon until our other ground units get there?" John asked.

John Henry was aware the battle would be over before they arrived.

"It will be at least forty minutes." John Henry said.

John believed everything would be under control by then as well. It was time to start thinking about collecting more captured material. From the body cam footage of the Terminators, it appeared that there were quite a few things to be captured.

"Have them pick up some more big trucks along the way. It seems like we need a few more." John said. "This has been a really busy day."

It looked like they were going to score a bounty of HK equipment and machinery for some assembly lines today. The battle wasn't over yet at the old steel mill and a lot of things could still go wrong.

John Henry kept an eye out for any hostile HK drones. They would be the biggest threat at this point. They knew this group possessed them. They may have another location with stored or stockpiled equipment. Their drones on recon began to expand their search area. If any hostile HK drones showed up, they hoped to be able to track them back from where they came from.

It was too soon to know if this was turning into a victory or not. It seemed that way but there were still a lot of unknowns.

John was very surprised and pleased how well the makeshift operation that Cameron put together on the fly seemed to work at the old steel mill. He didn't know if she was just lucky or if she was really that good.

It Was A Bummer

Such sweet beauty
How could they dare
Pure sweet charm
They didn't even care

Brighter than the day sky
A ray of pristine sunshine
Unexceedingly the best
More exquisite than fine

The lovable angelical smile
May not always have been present
Dazzling when it gorgeously was
It was much more than pleasant

Our minds still see
Our hearts still feel
No matter how we crave
It can never be real

Our hearts were broken
When they took away Summer
No matter how you cut it
It was a bummer

Nobody