Chapter 902

Wrong Floor

Seconds ago:

John relayed Savannah's message to John Henry. He figured John Henry heard it anyway. He watched Savannah run back into the fight. There was something about that, which he just couldn't take. It wasn't right. It wasn't fair. Savannah was the one in danger and taking all the risks. That should be him out there. Savannah gave him the vest to begin with. She gave her protection to him. How did he matter more than she did? It all started to stack up on him as he thought about it.

He needed to do something. He needed to do more. Savannah's luck wouldn't last forever. She'd been shot a few times that he was aware of. Her vest stopped all the projectiles from entering her body. They'd left terrible purple welts where they impacted her body armor on her tender smooth flesh. The soft tender flesh that he'd almost made love to only a short time ago. At this point it seemed like hours. He needed to refocus. It was less than five minutes ago.

Screw his safety. It was time to act and enter the fight. The girls were in trouble.

"Come on, John Henry, we need to help them." John said.

John Henry heard Savannah's earlier statement. He also heard her tell John to stay behind him. He was aware if John entered the combat arena, it was going to produce some type of negative results. They most likely would be directed at him. He wanted to put the brakes on this immediately.

"It's safer if you remain here." John Henry said.

John couldn't take it anymore. He needed to do something and he needed to do it now.

"Savannah's out there. Is it safe for her?" John asked. "Savannah, Gail and Cameron are all out there. I'm in here. I'm going – period."

John started for the door. He held his Taser in his hand.

John Henry knew he couldn't allow for that to happen.

"Wait." John Henry said as he quickly typed in a few more commands.

He wanted to make sure the elevator stopped in the right spot. It was Savannah's last directive. Well, almost the last one. She'd told John to remain behind him.

John Henry grabbed his Taser and followed John. He drew his Glock as he went.

As soon as they were in the hallway they saw Gail fire her silenced M9 as she jumped into the open elevator shaft.

'What the Hell?' John thought.

"That can't be good." John said.

He wondered where Gail went and how far down she'd jumped. It almost looked like her M9 fired full auto because she shot it so rapidly.

They both broke into a full run.

They reached the elevator shaft. John Henry tried to hold John back until he could assess the situation below. John pushed his way up to the front anyway. They were both able see Cameron dangling over the side of the elevator car, with Gail holding her with one hand. The 'Metal Bitch' was about to dislodge Gail's other hand as the elevator stopped one floor below them.

There was a large space between the top floor and the floor below them, because of the sunken whirlpool baths that the giant suites contained.

Cameron was on her way climbing back up on Gail's arm when she pulled her Taser out. She was about to fire her Taser over Gail's back at the 'Metal Bitch'.

John and John Henry both aimed and fired their Tasers.

All three of them fired their Tasers at the same time.

The 'Metal Bitch' dove through the open hatch in the top of the elevator. She was able to avoid being hit.

"Damn." John said. "She got away."

John Henry thought about jumping down to the top of the elevator car as well. That would leave John alone and unprotected. He would need to rely on Gail and Cameron to go after the female Terminator.

"For now she may have." John Henry said. "I don't think it will be for long."

John looked around and realized that someone was missing. He became more than a little alarmed.

"Where's Savannah?" John asked. "What happened to her?"

Things began to click in John Henry's mind now. He thought about where the elevator was currently stopped and where Savannah went.

"She went into the stairwell a short time ago." John Henry said. "I saw it on one of the security cameras. She has her Taser and an M4."

He was worried about Savannah's current whereabouts. Savannah did carry weapons that were sufficient to stop the female Terminator if she encountered her. He was pretty sure that was where she was headed. Now he was a little more concerned than he'd been a few seconds ago. That also meant she was on her own.

Cameron was back up on top of the elevator car after Gail pulled her up. She looked up and saw John. The blank look on her face was now replaced by a frown. She continued her forward motion and aimed her Taser into the empty elevator car. The 'Metal Bitch' was already on her way out of it.

She wasn't happy that John moved out of the Executive Suite and into harm's way. It made her wonder where Savannah was at.

Cameron moved to follow the 'Metal Bitch'. She wasn't about to let her get away. This was more than personal to her now. She'd almost been terminated several times in the last minute. If Gail hadn't jumped down and helped her when she did, she'd be lying at the bottom of the elevator shaft as a broken and sparking mass of wrecked metal and pulped sheath material.

She really wanted that 'Metal Bitch'.

Ally and Sheila rapidly approached the casino hotel.

Sheila made a sharp turn and skidded across the street some. She almost hit the front of a trash truck that was near the far curb. The trash truck just finished setting down a dumpster and backed away from it. The forks of the lift were right at window height for their SUV. If they'd skidded a little more, they would have both been impaled on the forks of the trash truck. It was a close one.

Ally earlier wanted Sheila to drive faster. Now that she started to do that, the driving was very reckless and dangerous. What almost just happened was another example of that.

"Watch out, stupid." Ally said. "We almost piled up - again."

Sheila didn't care for the backseat driving lesson. It didn't matter if Ally was in the passenger seat next to her. It was still backseat driving. She was sure there was an even bigger threat on the way to their casino hotel than what was currently being experienced.

"You're stupid. It sounds like an all out brawl at the hotel." Sheila said. "We need to get there in case the other casino sends reinforcements. There could be more Terminators. We know there are Grays. There might be Syndicate thugs on the way with them."

Ally thought that the last accident they'd almost been in was a little too close.

"We're not going to get there in one piece if we're impaled on the front of a rubbish truck." Ally said. "Like the one we just missed."

Sheila felt the vehicle was under control at all times. It wasn't her fault someone decided to pick up the trash at that time of the morning.

"Well, we did miss it, no harm no foul." Sheila said. "I told you before that it's called 'defensive driving'."

Ally almost wanted to laugh. If it wasn't for the seriousness of the current situation, she probably would have. She decided to give Sheila a little refresher of what she thought.

"And I told you then, it was 'offensive driving'." Ally said. "It still is."

Sheila didn't want to make a big deal about her driving. Ally was the one who told her to drive faster earlier anyway. She wanted to get to the operation as quickly as possible to help reinforce it.

"We DID miss the truck. That's all that matters." Sheila said. "It will all be over at the casino hotel before we can get there at this rate."

Ally was still upset by the near miss that they'd just experienced. The forks on the front of the trash truck were only inches from their heads. It was clear however that time would most likely run out before they could even get close.

"That's if we get there…." Ally said. "It will be over, one way or the other."

They still needed to hurry because more reinforcements could be on their way from the Skynet controlled Syndicate operation across the street.

The female Terminator was on her knees as the elevator stopped. She'd landed hard on the floor when she drove through the access hatch in the roof of the elevator. She needed to get out of there immediately. She saw it was one floor short from the top floor on the control panel. She forced both sets of elevator doors open and stood to exit. She knew the two 'Metal Whores' who tried to jump her would be down after her within the next second. At least one of them had a Taser.

The 'Metal Bitch' was out of the elevator. She thought she was going to escape. She turned away from the direction of the stairway without even looking at it. She knew that direction would be compromised by this point in time. She would need to make her way through someone's hotel room and out to the balcony. She'll be able to go up to the next level that way and surprise whatever 'Skynet group' was up there. That was who she currently believed the 'enemy' was. The fact that they seemed to be 'Terminator heavy' was additional proof of that. She could always use the same technique to go down floors as well. It may be prudent for her to wait until more assistance arrived from her casino across the street. She was aware there'd been a major disturbance at her casino. There were a number of dead and several missing. She'd also been unable to contact the holding pen for female 'recruits' into their operation. It still upset her that she needed to let four of them go. She thought maybe she should have terminated them instead of letting them go. She decided she would track each one of them down. She wanted the male handlers to give them especially brutal treatment because of the trouble that they caused her.

She decided that evasion was the best route to follow currently. She's been able to get away clean at this point so there was no need to push her luck. She planned to come back and make sure that everyone involved in this operation was terminated.

"HEY!" Someone yelled at her.

As she turned to look, she saw a stunning redhead holding an M4 pointed at her and something else held in her left hand below the foregrip of the M4.

It was a Taser.

The 'Metal Bitch' flung herself to the side as she heard the Taser fire. She knew it wasn't going to end well as she heard the Taser fire four times somehow. She knew the female was human too. The human Bitch wasn't there by accident. She'd planned for her to be there when she exited the elevator. She knew that she'd been outsmarted by a human. A human Bitch would terminate her. That was her last thought as her world turned black.

Savannah just exited from the stairwell after she went down one floor. The doorway to the stairwell hadn't even closed yet when she saw the elevator doors forced open and the 'Metal Bitch' exit into the hallway. The 'Metal Bitch' didn't even look in her direction until she called out to her. She fired her Taser four times. She watched two of the four Taser shots hit the female Terminator. She went down like a rock. She smashed into the drywall on the side of the hallway wall.

She quickly moved forward and grabbed one foot of the 'Metal Bitch' and started to drag her back into the elevator. She'd just gotten her part way inside when she heard a door open in the hallway.

"What's going on out here?" Someone asked.

Savannah poked her head around the side of the partially open elevator door and saw a man standing there in his underwear as he looked out of his room door. A woman who held a sheet up to her neck stood behind him in the doorway.

Cameron and Gail landed behind Savannah in the elevator. They'd both jumped down to help her.

"I'm sorry." Savannah said to the man. "This is the wrong floor."

Cameron effortlessly pulled the 'Metal Bitch' the rest of the way into the elevator.

The man looked at where the sprawled female Terminator was a second ago.

"What's her story?" The man asked.

Savannah poked her head back out.

"She drank too much alcohol." Savannah said. "She can't hold her liquor. Now, when I get her back to the room, we won't even be able to have sex. It's a real shame too. It was going to be her first time with a female. I know she would've really enjoyed it."

That statement seemed to catch the man off guard.

"I heard something that sounded like a gunshot or loud noise." The man said.

"It may have been a firecracker." Savannah said. "There were some young men that got off on the floor below."

Savannah was worried that the man was going to come out of the room. If he looked inside the elevator he was going to see three of them wearing combat vests and holding firearms. With the recent trouble that they had in Las Vegas, that was bound to cause a panic. There was a pretty good chance Cameron would want to terminate the man and then would need to terminate the female that was with him to prevent the issue from getting out of control. So far the man had only seen her head peek around the corner.

Savannah moved fully inside the elevator.

Gail stepped forward and grabbed the elevator doors. She forced them back closed. They were only halfway open anyway.

Savannah looked back and Cameron was in the process of removing the chip from the 'Metal Bitch'. Now she was really glad that the man hadn't looked in the elevator. He would have been terminated for sure when he saw Cameron cut into the scalp of the female Terminator. He surely would have had a negative reaction.

Gail looked up and out of the open roof hatch of the elevator.

"Bring the elevator up." Gail said. "Savannah took down the 'Metal Bitch'. She's terminated."

Gail started to physically check Savannah for any injuries.

"I'm fine, Gail." Savannah said. "She didn't touch me, nothing did."

Gail believed Savannah but she needed to make sure that she wasn't injured. It was possible she could be injured and not realize it or how severe it was if she did realize it and didn't want to make a big deal about it.

"You know we need to check." Gail said. "It is standard procedure. It will make me feel better to know as well. I know you understand."

Savannah wanted to say to Gail that she'd checked pretty good 'earlier' but refrained. She knew that would bother Cameron.

John remained at the open elevator doors on the top floor as he looked down into the shaft. John Henry ran back to the 'Executive Suite' to bring the elevator up.

John stepped back as the elevator came up.

The door opened. John saw Cameron and Savannah standing there. Gail held the 'Metal Bitch' in her arms.

"That looked like it was touch and go." John said.

John still held his Taser at the ready when the elevator doors opened. He put it away once he was sure that everything was under control.

Cameron knew it had been a little more severe than that. She knew that she would have been terminated if Gail hadn't been there when she was.

"It was." Cameron said. "Gail saved me from going over the side. I owe her one."

Cameron was aware Gail took the damage for Savannah earlier that would have killed Savannah. Now Gail saved her from falling to her termination. Gail earned the right to share with Savannah in the last few hours. She was sure that was why Savannah was finally with Gail too. Savannah was grateful to be alive and wanted to show Gail her appreciation. She would never interfere with Gail and Savannah sharing in the future either. She was grateful too.

Gail didn't want to make a big deal about it. She knew that Savannah saved her and she was pretty sure her actions earlier in the evening may have saved Savannah's life. Now her actions at Savannah's urging helped save Cameron.

"We all help each other." Gail said.

Savannah turned and smiled at Gail. She turned her attention back to John.

"I think we are going to need to check out real soon." Savannah said.

Before John could answer, the stairwell door opened and Cammy stepped out.

"I think you're right." Cammy said as she exited the stairwell. "There is a giant hole in the side of the stairwell wall. A support beam was knocked out. Did I miss anything?"

Cameron really didn't want anyone else to know how close to termination she'd been. She decided to keep it simple.

"Not much." Cameron said. "Savannah stopped the 'Metal Bitch'.

Savannah felt that Gail and Cameron did most of the heavy lifting on the takedown. She'd only been there at the finale. That was just on speculation too.

"I only assisted." Savannah said. "I think you experienced a far rougher match than I did."

John gave Cameron and Savannah both a hug.

"Let's collect our things and get out of this place." John said. "It's compromised in more ways than one at this point."

John remembered the HK drone that smashed into the top floor of the building with Mrs. Weaver, his mother and Mr. Ellison. He didn't want to stick around for an encore performance. The fact that the enemy controlled casino was literally right across the street didn't help matters any either. That meant that there was more enemy help nearby and probably some of it was already on its way over. They needed to get moving.

John and John Henry gathered the computer gear from the 'Executive Suite'. Gail and Cammy retrieved everything from the 'Master Suite'.

Cameron and Savannah entered the 'Honeymoon Suite'. They collected everything.

Savannah and Cameron exchanged a few glances as they got everything ready to go.

Cameron wanted to ask Savannah a question but couldn't. She couldn't process the words to 'ask'.

Savannah put everything away but the wedding dress.

Cameron came to her and hugged Savannah, the wedding dress was between them.

"Will you wear this for me?" Cameron asked.

Savannah could see Cameron looked very uneasy. She wanted to put her mind at ease.

"Yes." Savannah said. "Of course I will. You know I love you, Cameron."

Cameron smiled at her.

Savannah knew Cameron was still 'troubled'. She was pretty sure she knew what it was about too. She really didn't think it was a big deal because even though Cameron claimed she wanted it to happen she knew that she really didn't. She really didn't feel like discussing it especially since nothing actually happened. It had been closed but that's all it had been.

"Maybe you can straighten the bed up some." Savannah said. "It's kind of messed up."

Cameron still held Savannah tightly. The wedding dress was between them. It was like an adhesive bonding them together.

Savannah was a little worried that Cameron hadn't acted on her last suggestion. She wanted to give her a little bit more positive reinforcement.

"Will you wear this for me?" Savannah asked as she indicated the dress.

Cameron could see Savannah attempted to reach out to her. She didn't want to seem negative even if that's how she felt about some things. She tried to make light of the situation. It was something that she learned to do from Savannah and Young Allison.

"Yes." Cameron said. "It will prove to be a very interesting and revealing ceremony as we both wear the same dress and switch it back and forth between us."

They both laughed over the statement. It was funny.

Savannah looked deeply at Cameron.

"Cameron, you can straighten up the bed a little." Savannah said again.

Cameron heard Savannah tell her the first time. Savannah must be telling her something else. She looked over towards the bedroom with the heart shaped bed and back at Savannah.

"OK." Cameron said.

Savannah smiled faintly and nodded towards the bedroom in the Honeymoon Suite.

Neither of them wanted to 'talk about it'.

Savannah carefully packed the wedding dress up.

Cameron slowly went into the bedroom and looked at the heart shaped bed. It was the same bed where Savannah and her almost completed their love. The very bed where she was sure John and Savannah did completed their love.

Cameron looked back and Savannah was out of sight. She quickly touched the bottom sheet. She scanned it for fresh traces of John's genetic material. There was nothing fresh and nothing from Savannah either.

Cameron looked back and Savannah smiled at her.

"Nothing happened. I'm still a girl." Savannah said. "Even though I'm pregnant for the third time…. I'm sure that I'll be the first virgin to leave the Honeymoon Suite, still a virgin."

The blank look on Cameron' face blossomed into a smile.

"I want to say 'Thank You' but I know it has to happen." Cameron said. "I want it to happen for him and YOU. It NEEDS to happen for all of us and the future."

Savannah knew it was a touchy subject no matter how I was looked at. She knew what needed to be done and she knew what the future held. She was just sure that things would happen like they were supposed to happen when they were supposed to happen. There was no need to rush any of them. They would all mean more to everyone if they happened on their own.

"It will, Cameron, for both John and YOU." Savannah said. "I promise to keep all my promises. I'll protect John AND you as the future progresses. I swear it."

Cameron really didn't know what to say.

"Thank You, Savannah." Cameron said.

"I love you, Cameron." Savannah said.

"I love you too, Savannah." Cameron said.

Cameron loved Savannah as much as John. Maybe she even loved her more at this point. Savannah always made her feel like she was someone special, it mattered to her. Savannah never made her feel like – Nobody.

Sheila and Ally pulled up at the casino hotel.

They received word from John Henry the operation was over. The team took down the 'Metal Bitch' and everything was being packed up.

Ally thought they might be done inside but worried about reinforcements from across the street.

"Do you see any 'Heavies'?" Ally asked as she looked around.

Sheila looked around as well. She was well acquainted with both Grays and Syndicate types, both of them spelled trouble. The good news was is that both of them were easy to kill.

"No." Sheila said. "Not yet anyway."

Ally looked in the back of the SUV. She didn't think they're going to have room for everybody and everything.

"We're going to need another set of wheels. Let's go find a van." Ally said. "All of the cash is taking up too much room."

Sheila thought that that was one problem she could rectify on her own.

"I still want to go to the abused women's facility." Sheila said.

"I'll mention it to Savannah or Cameron." Ally said. "We did help those captive girls and the other four too. The ones the 'Metal Bitch' needed to release, to come here. We were directly responsible for that. We helped eight girls tonight."

Sheila couldn't help but think about the females that were abused by the ones that they once cared about and loved. Somehow that was even worse than being abused by a stranger. She still wanted to look up some of the abusive males and pay them a 'special visit'. She wanted for them to know what it was like to be slapped around and beat on by somebody. She'd also make sure they could never be with another female, as a male anyway. Some people just needed to learn things the hard way. It was the only way to make them stop.

"I guess we did." Sheila said. "I still want to help some more."

Somewhere In There

Is love real or imagined
Where does it exist
How do we fall captive
Why can't we resist

We believe it's in the heart
Or is it really in the mind
We think it makes us see clearer
Instead it actually makes us blind

Never give up or surrender
Fight for what your heart will need
To not fill your heart with love
Means it will forever bleed

You think your heart is empty
That there is no love to receive
The pieces are all there
Now is the time to weave

Look deep inside you
There is no need to despair
Search and you will find it
Somewhere in there

Nobody