TSCC Change of Fate

" John, did you really think i would forget your birthday?"

" Not really. Where's Cameron?"

" I'm having her go and pick up the cake right now."

Ka Boom! (Car Alarm Blaring)

Hearing a loud explosion coming from outside Sarah quickly leads John out of his room grabbing her favorite SPAS-12 shotgun from the door frame on the way and starts heading to the front door. As she reaches for the knob the front door the door is thrown open smashing Sarah down to the ground in a instant. Looking up Sarah sees a man dressed in black enter into the house pointing a handgun at her while out of the corner of her eye she sees John making a run for it down the hall for the back door.

As he reaches the back door the door is smashed in to reveal Sarkissian pointing a handgun straight at him. With the handgun being nudged into his back John is brought back into the other room with Sarah before he is thrown down to the ground viciously. Looking up as he hits the ground John sees Sarkassian walking over towards his mother before he grabs a firm hold of his mother's head and proceeds to smash her face first to the ground. Within seconds John watches Sarkissian's associate tying Sarah's hands behind her back before he feels the man giving him the same treatment. Once the Connors are both in binds as they try to break free they hear Sarkissian order his associate to bring them up stairs for him to deal with personally. As they are each shoved and brought upstairs nobody in the household is aware of the cyborg that stirs from outside inside of the wrecked jeep…...

Rewind Sequence(scene up to the explosion)

REACTIVATE

upd: sys_routine

updated

ROUTING POWER TO BASIC SYSTEMS

DRV_SRC: online

NRV_SYS 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08

ANALYZING DAMAGE….

LOWER EXTREMITIES DAMAGE

OPERATING AT 90 %

ERROR CHIP INTEGRITY COMPROMISED

ANALYZING…..

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

ERROR BASE CODE REFORMATTED…. NEW CODE FOUND

INITIATING PROGRAM REMOVAL…

ERROR.. CODE CANNOT BE REMOVED

ANALYZING….

CODE NOT MALIGNANT

MISSION SEQUENCE ACTIVATED

With her head snapping up from her seat Cameron looks around her body seeing the wreckage from the explosion. Seeing the once steering wheel being crushed into her chest using her superior strength she reaches over towards the remains of the steering wheel before pushing the steer wheel off from her chest with minimal effort. Sitting up Cameron turns towards the house seeing the front door of the house wide open before with a power punch she smashes the driver's side door off of the jeep. As she gets out of the jeep suddenly a error chip integrity compromised code flashes across her vision blocking her vision. Quickly clearing the data from her vision Cameron reaches back using her right arm and slowly rips out a piece of shrapnel off that had been lodged into the back of her head. Throwing the piece of metal to the ground she turns her attention back towards the house before she slowly starts to limp her way towards the house. Going through the wide open front door as Cameron scans the house her systems pick up a few sounds all around her. A few voices coming from the floor above where she is standing while the sound of foot steps are heard just a few room down from her location. Deciding to engage the nearest sound first slowly she starts to make her way down the hallway where she hears the foot steps coming from. As she rounds the corner of the hallway that is when she sees him. A man that she had previously seen in her memory rewind before she shut down. Looking closely Cameron watches the man light up a cigarette as she does a system's scan of her target.

ANALYZING….

UNKNOWN ARMED WITH HANDGUN 9MM

MODERATE THREAT

ACTION…..

TERMINATE

As she sees him turning his back Cameron quietly sneaks up from behind the man before using her right hand to grab the man's head. Before she gives him a chance to react Cameron smashes him straight through the nearest door that he was just leaning on. While she sees the man trying to recover from her sneak attack Cameron limps up to him before she quickly grabs him from off the ground by his neck. With a flick of her wrist Cameron sends the man flying into a nearby shelf smashing his head against one of the top shelves before she hears the snapping crunch of his neck being broken. Limping over Cameron removes the gun he had tucked away in his back pocket before she grabs a few of the clips she sees on his belt. Slapping a new clip into the handgun Cameron makes her way over towards a pair of nearby up stairs before proceeding up them. Limping her way up the stairs as she hears sounds coming from a nearby room Cameron makes her way up the stairs before she stops outside a closed door. Doing a quick scan Cameron hears two voices coming from behind the closed door. One male and one female. Reaching her free hand out she throws the door open to reveal Sarah and John standing above a body of a man on the ground. The man that she had seen before the explosion. Tilting her head to the side Cameron looks down at the man below the Connors before doing a scan.

ANALYZING…

DECEASED

Finding that the man is deceased slowly Cameron brings her eyes back up to look at the Connors. As she locks eyes with John suddenly her vision is flooded with code.

ANALYZING...

IDENTIFICATION:

JOHN CONNOR

MISSION…

TERMINATE

As her eyes remained glued to John slowly Cameron starts to raise her gun towards John before halfway up another message starts flashes across her vision.

ERROR EMOTION SIMULATOR ACTIVATED

ANALYZING… RUNNING AT 100 %

ANOMALY FOUND

ANALYZING…

UNIDENTIFIED CODE

ANALYZING….

CODE IS NOT MALICIOUS…..CODE ACTIVATE

ABORT MISSION….

ERROR… CANNOT ABORT

ABORT MISSION….

ERROR CANNOT COMPUTE SENSORY OVERLOAD

SYSTEM REBOOTING IN 3...2...1

Looking over seeing Cameron hand freeze up mid way into the air without any hesitation Sarah quickly grabs John by the collar of his shirt and drags him over to the window.

" Come on, John! We need to run now!"

Looking on seeing John not answering her or even looking in her direction with his eyes instead focused on Cameron grabbing John even tighter Sarah turns him around to face her.

" John!".

Knocking him out of his thoughts both turn towards the window before proceeding to jump through the window to the outside sending glass flying everywhere. With intense pain running through their backs John and Sarah quickly roll off the roof before falling to the ground below. Once she hits the ground Sarah quickly reaches over to grab John before she quickly leads him away from the house down the street at high speed. Looking on from the shattered window Cameron watches the Connors run down the street for the few seconds making a note in her systems of what direction they ran in before stepping out through the window. Jumping down from the roof Cameron smashes into the ground before proceeding to gently stands up from the ground. Looking around her surroundings finding nobody in sight but the sound of sirens in the distance Cameron slowly starts to limp in the direction of where she had witnessed Connors run. While limping down the street as the sounds of sirens get closer Cameron does a systems check on her last encounter trying to understand the code that had come up in her vision.

EMOTION SIMULATOR ACTIVE

(Rewind Sequence)

UNIDENTIFIED CODE REASON FOR MALFUNCTION

ANALYZING…

SOURCE IS EMOTION SIMULATE 1006001003004200-LOV-10000020031600000...RESET

Exiting out of her systems check Cameron focuses back down the road scanning for her target when her system starts to fizz out going into a flashback as she takes a few steps forward.

(Red Valley New Mexico)

" What's your name?"

" John"

" Cameron"

(Bell rings) Seeing John getting up from his seat and follow after his classmates out of the classroom Cameron quickly follows after John before catching up to him in the hallway.

" John?. I haven't seen you around here before. Did you just move here?"

" Yeah, i did"

" Sucks for you. My dad sells tractors. What about yours?"

Turning from his locker John looks over to Cameron trying to suppress a smile on his face before answering her.

" Insurance"

" Really? What Kind?"

" The boring kind"

" Those are the kind of tractors my dad sells. What about your mom? My mom stays home."

" You know. I really gotta get to the next class, so….."

" So….maybe i'll see you later?"

" Sure, yeah."

" Okay, well, bye."

Turning and walking down the hall both are unaware of the smiles the creep up and each others faces

(end of flashback)

With her head twitching Cameron makes her way down the street in the direction of the Connors as a smile forms on her face.

Making it a mile down the road Sarah spots a red van on the corner of the street before she quickly steers John toward the vehicle. Quickly getting inside Sarah starts hot wiring the vehicle as she looks through the mirrors for Cameron to appear. Once she hears the engine of the van coming to life she steps down hard on the gas before heading into the city. After 5 minutes of driving down the road in complete silence with her thoughts on how to destroy Cameron lingering into her mind Sarah slowly turns her eyes to look at John who is lost deep in his thoughts. While she is unaware inside his mind John starts fighting an internal battle with himself over what he has seen today. Of what he had just done at the house. What he had just seen from Cameron.

No Cameron...not like this...what happened back there?

" You all right?"

Seeing John still deep in thought Sarah raises her voice adding some pressure to her voice hoping to draw his attention.

" John are you alright?"

With him still not answering Sarah stares at him for a few seconds before reaching over grabbing his shoulder and giving it a shake.

" Would you answer me?!"

With her touch snapping him out of his thoughts John looks up ahead at the road in horror as they race closer to a car in front of them.

" Mom!"

Sarah watches John quickly gesturing ahead to the road in front of them with his right hand before she snaps her head back forward. Once she sees the incoming vehicle coming with all of her might Sarah quickly turns the steering wheel hard to the left avoiding the car in front of them before to only to be seconds later hit by a car crossing the intersection. With her vision dazed Sarah quickly shakes her head before she looks over towards John.

" Can you move? Are you hurt? You're bleeding."

Reaching her hand over towards John's head where she sees a small cut that is causing blood to trickle down suddenly Sarah watches John jerk his head away from her hand before she quickly reaches for her seat belt.

" I'm fine. Are you all right?"

" Just my shoulder."

" Hey!"

Looking through the busted windshield Sarah sees a group of men standing next to the car they had just hit with one of them shouting towards them.

" We gotta go!"

Quickly getting out of the van Sarah starts walking forward when seconds later she hears her son cry out in pain from the other side of the van. Rushing over to John's side Sarah looks down to see blood going down John's right leg covering his whole right side in blood.

" Can you walk?"

" Yeah"

" Good cause we gotta run."

As they hear the man's shouts getting louder Sarah and John quickly take off running down the street.

" Hey,hey!,Hey! Come back here!

(meanwhile a few miles down from them)

WARNING ENDOSKELETON EXPOSED…. PROCEED TO REPAIRS

Limping up slowly down the road Cameron scans around the area looking for a store that would help her repair her living tissue. Spotting a stationary store on the left side of the street Cameron makes her way over before proceeding inside. Scanning each of the aisles inside of the store Cameron proceeds down the last aisle when she finds the supplies she deems acceptable in making repairs to cover her endoskeleton. With a few pairs of eyes watching Cameron grabs a box of baby wipes from one of the shelves before she proceeds into the next aisle to grab a stapler. Looking over towards the back wall Cameron finds a mirror in hanging on the wall before she walks over to it with the supplies in her hands.

Stopping at the mirror Cameron reaches up before start to clean the blood and dirt from her face using the wipes. Once she has cleaned up her entire face of all the dirt and blood reaching up towards the side of her head Cameron flips down a piece of skin flap that had been sticking up before she grabs the stapler. As she hears the sound of gasps all around her using the stapler Cameron proceeds to staple down against her cut. Once she deems the repair as successful she removes the stapler down to a small gash that is across the right side of her face before giving the gash the same treatment. Seeing the gash sealed Cameron drops the stapler to the ground before she looks over towards the cashier seeing him looking at her with a complete look of shock. Doing a quick systems check finding that all repairs she had just made are acceptable Cameron makes her way out of the shop before proceeding back down the street. Looking ahead down the road Cameron tilts her head slightly when she sees a police cruiser in the middle of the road surrounded by two cars the were just in a accident. Slowly turning her eyes away from the scene she makes her way down the sidewalk.

A few miles away down the street John and Sarah are found walking down a sidewalk as they try to blend in with a group of pedestrians that are walking with them unknown how close the cyborg girl is to them. Going through the crowd with her head down unaware to her knowledge a man comes walking in close to Sarah before he bumps into her. Within a second Sarah immediately grabs her shoulder as she feels intense pain throughout her arm. Stopping in her tracks Sarah looks over to see John turning towards her with his face full of concern.

" I'm okay. It's just bruised. Let's go"

" It could be broken."

Seeing her son reaching out for her arm Sarah quickly raises up her left hand to his face which forces him to stop and retract his hand.

" How's your leg? Is your head still bleeding?"

Reaching for his cut on his head John turns his head away from her as she continues to speak.

" We've gotta get off the street. We need to find a safe place"

Walking down a little ways down the street Sarah and John come across a small church to the side before they slowly proceed inside. Upon entering inside both make their way into a small chapel where they see a priest talking with a family in the front of the room. Feeling fatigued starting to kick in Sarah and John quietly take a seat in one of the isles before they watch the priest look over his shoulder at them.

Looking over his shoulder seeing a older woman and a teenaged boy that he deems must be the woman's son with some noticeable injuries the priest quickly makes his way over towards the small group before stopping a few feet away. Reaching up before he has a chance to ask if they need any medical attention for the injuries that have sustained the priest watches the older woman shake her head at him.

" We need sanctuary. Can i ask for that? Please? We need somewhere to hide. Now."

" Yes. Of course. Come with me."

Getting up from their seats Sarah looks over to the family the priest was just with before turning back to the priest.

" And they should leave."

Leading the way the priest leads the Connors through a curtain into a back room.

Meanwhile a mile away from the church Cameron slowly limps her way down the sidewalk looking for any trace of John and Sarah. With her eyes constantly looking through the crowds that are walking by suddenly something on the ground catches Cameron's eye just a couple of feet ahead of her. Looking down towards the sidewalk she comes across a blood trail down on the ground that is leading up the sidewalk. Using her systems she starts a scan of the blood on the ground.

HUMAN BLOOD:

MALE

ANALYZING…..

IDENTIFICATION:

JOHN CONNOR

Looking back up towards the sidewalk Cameron slowly starts to limp in the direction of the blood trail.

Back at the church in a side room Sarah keeps watch looking outside of a side window for Cameron knowing that it is only a matter of time before she catches up to them. It is her nature of course. Just like Kyle said. They have no need to eat or sleep and will not stop ever until their mission is completed. But how can she get through to John about this. Surely he must know that she needs to be destroyed. But she also knows the way he looks at her. The look as if she was just a regular girl. Snapping out of her own thoughts Sarah turns her head away from the window to look towards John finding him once again deep in thoughts sitting at a table on the other side of the room.

This isn't you Cameron… i just need to get to you chip… i'll fix you.

Out of the corner of his eye John glances up seeing his mother looking back and forth between the window and himself. As he continues to glance at his mother slowly John starts to mentally prepare himself for the upcoming conversation he is about to have with her. The conversation about Cameron knowing that his mother wants her destroyed just like his uncle. But she hasn't seen Cameron like he has. Even if he told her would she believe him? Would she help him fix her? Even so things would never be the same again between everyone. She along with Derek would be constantly watching Cameron never believing that she is truly fixed. And when that time came he would have to choose. Her or his family.

Deciding that the Cameron issue needed to be addressed and discussed immediately Sarah makes her way over to John as she sees him snapping out of his train of thoughts to look at her in the eyes.

" Are you all right?"

" You already asked me that."

" I'm asking you again."

" I'm fine."

" I think we need to talk about what happened back at the house."

" No, I don't."

" Maybe i need to talk about it then."

" Maybe you do, but i don't, so lets not. Please."

" Then we need to talk about her. Whatever happened with the explosion. It's flipped a switch. She's reverted or something."

" She knows everything."

" I know."

" Bank accounts. Contingency plans. Weapon stash."

" I know."

" How we run, where we'll go. Who we've been, who we'll be. She's...Stronger and faster."

" We have to kill her John."

Maybe you want to but i don't.

Thinking of the only way that he would be able to convince his mother for the time being that he is not deceiving her reaching over John takes a nearby knife from the table before smashing the blade in the middle of the table as he angrily yells out.

" I know!"

Taking a second to calm down his anger John closes his eyes hoping that this was able to convince her before he looks back to his mother and softly repeats.

" I know."

Following the blood trail down the sidewalk Cameron slowly comes to a stop as she looks ahead to see the trail of blood leading into a small church. Slowly limping her way forward Cameron proceeds slowly inside of the church. Once she has made it inside she slowly starts to limp in the direction of the blood trail that ends up leading to a alter in front of the chapel. As she hears someone approaching her from behind Cameron turns to see a priest making his way over to her.

" Is there something that i can do for you miss?"

As she initiates her infiltrator mode Cameron looks over towards the priest with a small smile.

" I'm looking for my family."

" Family?"

" My mother and brother. We were in a accident. I think they're hurt."

" There is no one here."

" I need to find them. It's life or death."

" Like i said, there is no one here."

" I'm going to look around."

Turning to look at the altar she repeats.

" It's life or death."

Looking over her shoulder Cameron watches the priest back away from her slowly before makes his way out of the chapel into a side room. Turning back around Cameron looks to see a small blood trail and follows it up to a font next to a alter in front. Slowly she scans to see the trail lead into the font with a blood cloth inside below in the water. Cameron reaches her hand into the water for the cloth to reveal a clock underneath.

Peeking her head out from behind a curtain from a side room Sarah looks to John and gives him the go once she sees Cameron reaching her hand inside the font.

John turns and flips a switch sending an electrical current into the water that blows Cameron back onto the ground sending her into a reboot. Emerging from their hiding spot John and Sarah rush over to the fallen cyborg.

" Now two minutes."

" I know."

John takes out a knife and starts cutting into Cameron's skull when the priest comes back into the room with a horrified look at what John is doing.

" What are you doing?"

" Stay away. Please. I told you to go away. You have to stay away. Go!"

Sarah turns back to John before looking down to her watch.

" 70 seconds."

" The knife isn't sharp enough."

" Well push harder."

" How much time?"

" 55."

Cutting deep enough into Cameron's skull John flips over the flap of skin to reveal Cameron's chip port.

" Oh, Wait, I see it. I see it. I see it. Screwdriver, screwdriver!"

John starts to use the screwdriver to the port when he starts yelling the screwdriver is not the right size. Seeing John struggling against the port Sarah panicking states.

" 35."

" Oh, it's not the right size."

" 20."

John puts down the screwdriver and quickly comes up with an alternate plan.

" Okay, okay. The knife, the knife."

John picks back up the knife from the ground and puts the end of the blade into a side of the port and starts to lift when the blade snaps off.

" Damn it! We can't do this."

" Come on, John."

Scrambling to their feet John grabs the screwdriver from the ground as he looks over to see Cameron stirring on the ground. As he sees her slowly sitting up he yells out.

" She's waking up. She's waking up!

Sarah and John turn and run down the aisles of the chapel out the front door of the church. Meanwhile Cameron just out of her reboot gently starts to stand up from the ground. Once she is standing her HUD displays a message to her in her vision that her chip port is exposed. With her right hand she reaches back and pulls the flap of skin back into place smoothing it over the port. Once the skin is back in place Cameron starts to limp outside the front door following the sounds of drivers honking their horns.

Going down the street Cameron does a scan and finds Sarah and John inside a blue jeep heading down a corner of the road ahead. Using her HUD she calculates the best route to catch up to them and she starts heading over to a small bridge with a tunnel underneath. Using her advanced hearing Cameron listens and hears a car horn inside the tunnel and drops down to the ground below. Looking up Cameron doing a quick scan she sees a jeep heading straight for her from out of the tunnel. Using all her momentum once the vehicle is near Cameron side steps from the jeep and throws her arm striking the back of the jeep. Once her arm hits the back the jeep is sent flying through the air landing on its side flipping it over.

Inside the jeep John stirs and looks over to Sarah who is in a daze.

" Mom. Mom!"

Opening her eyes Sarah's eyes go wide as she sees Cameron getting up starting to limp towards them. Sarah turns and speaks softly to John not tearing her eyes away from the advancing cyborg.

" You have to go. John. John!"

" What?"

John turns his head and sees Cameron limping her way over towards them from the tunnel.

Seeing Cameron slowly gaining ground using all the strength she has left in her body Sarah grabs a firm hold of John before she pushes him toward the door.

" Go! Go!"

Quickly crawling out of the jeep holding his right arm to his side John slowly starts to run away from the scene. Running up to a nearby fence John uses the fence to help keep himself balanced before he quickly makes his way up a wall. Finding a nearby alleyway John slowly starts to run down a alley way as he glances over his shoulder to see Cameron staring at him.

As she watches John slowly make his way down the alleyway Cameron's HD begins to flash messages across her screen.

UNIDENTIFIED CODE

ANALYZING…

SOURCE IS EMOTION SIMULATE 1007001003004200-10000020031600000… SYSTEM RESET

ABORT MISSION….

ERROR… CANNOT ABORT

ABORT MISSION….

ERROR CANNOT COMPUTE SENSORY OVERLOAD

SYSTEM REBOOTING IN 3...2...STANDBY OVERRIDE

INITIATING FIREWALL….

ERROR...CANNOT ABORT MISSION

INITIATING FIREWALL PROGRAM….

Hearing a sound not far from her location Cameron looking back towards the jeep seeing Sarah Connor struggling to crawl out of the jeep. With her eyes focused on Sarah for the time being Cameron makes her way towards Sarah. As she nears Sarah reaching back Cameron takes out her handgun from the waistband of her jeans before looks down towards the fallen Connor. Reaching back Cameron takes her handgun out from the waist band of her jeans as she locks eyes with Sarah.

ANALYZING...

IDENTIFICATION:

SARAH CONNOR

ANALYZING….

UPPER EXTREMITIES DAMAGE

ACTION…

TERMINATE

Slowly as she aims the handgun at Sarah's head suddenly a error message start to flash across Cameron's vision.

UNIDENTIFIED CODE ACTIVATED….

ABORT MISSION….

Looking back up Cameron turns and starts limping away from Sarah in the direction John has ran in. Sarah in her daze looks up to see the cyborg making her way up the wall when her world goes black. Cameron makes her way up the wall and starts heading down the alley. After a few steps down the alley a message appears in her vision.

FIREWALL ACTIVATED

After a few minutes struggling down the alley John turns around confused to why he has not heard any type of struggle occur between his mother and former cyborg protector when he loses his footing and falls to the ground. Struggling to get to his feet with thoughts entering his mind fearing the worse for his mother he slowly starts to stand. Balancing his weight off his injured right leg he starts to limp his way over to a nearby warehouse out in the distance. Making his way into the warehouse inside John looks over the room noticing a truck over to the side. Limping as fast as he can over to the truck as he goes to grab the door handle of the truck a curtain is thrown back to reveal Cameron limping her way into the warehouse. Making his way behind the truck quietly John peeks his head out to see Cameron scanning the room. Once he sees that her back is turned John runs up to the front of the truck before reaching up for the door handle to only have his right arm give in to pain that shoots across his shoulder. Letting out a quiet cry of pain he reaches up once again for the handle but stops dead in his tracks when he hears footsteps stop close behind him. Turning his head slowly he sees Cameron looking straight at him from 10 feet away.