Ch.140

Derek said he didn't kill Andy, only found him with his Turk AI missing. The next day he told Sarah to put the machines on it. I worked on the missing hand of the last metal. As it turns out an FBI agent was hiding it so Sarah and I broke into agent Ellison's place apartment.

The hand wasn't there, but Sarah took one of the tapes from her file that Ellison had left laying around. We got back to the house and I told her to give me a minute to track the doctor. She said she had his address out in Featherhead, but she needed a bit because of Derek. That switched to her problems with John because the tape she took was of her signing away her parental rights to him when she was in the mental institution.

By the time we got there I had to pull agent Ellison out of the fire Sarah's former doctor started. We got the hand and left the agent unconscious outside with the doctor. When we got back I destroyed the hand with Sarah and John after she spoke to him. Soon it was time to hack the chips, starting with the first one that attacked the safe house, then the military one after the coltan and finally the one after Reese.

I hacked them showing John how before finding everything the first one had done and was up to since he'd come back from the future. The city hall traffic light system was a big issue so I created a virus and planted it with Sarah and Derek.

Alarms went off but the virus worked, infecting the whole system. I put the guards to sleep as we escaped and without proof because I shredded the security system. The virus got by unnoticed until the next day when it triggered a gridlock across the entire city, causing several dozen accidents. The system was shut down and we had bigger issues.

The second chip was a dud because all those involved were dead and there was nothing to change, but the third chip was from a T-888 that was specifically tracking Derek and the cell with a T-1000 aka liquid metal. The liquid metal was trying to track me while the T-888 was tracking Derek's group specifically. I told Derek I had to go and make myself a bit public to trap the liquid metal and kill it.

I told him I can't risk the Connors so I wanted him to take them and burn the house down if I wasn't back within a day. I passed him the laser pistol and Cameron said she couldn't let me do that. She told me she had orders from John not to let me near any of the T-1000s because if they got me there was no future for humanity with my abilities. I told her she didn't get a choice in what I do and John gave me no such orders.

She shoved her fist into my chest before breaking my neck. I woke up in bed an hour later pissed off and alone except John who told me they went after it without me. He said they couldn't risk the world on the off chance it infected me. I got up and he said he agreed, I was too dangerous to be risked.

I told him I wasn't risking anything because I can protect myself. I told him the only risk was it escaping and coming after them instead which is why I wanted Derek to take them away. In the end Derek and Sarah were fine while Cameron was damaged pretty badly, if however repairable. There weren't any leftover nanites on her from her scans so she healed while Derek told me they'd lured the T-1000 into a trap using Cameron to call the number we saw in the memories of the T-888.

She'd pretended to be me and they lured it into a scrap refinery where Cameron fought it while they hindered it until she managed to shove it with a super heated iron plate into the molten super heated metal cauldron where it was melted to slag. I told Cameron that if she ever did that again, John's orders or not I'd put her down as well. She told me John wasn't how I remembered him and that when I left he changed and not just a little.

She said he stopped trusting others and closed himself off besides talking to her and planning missions. She said I was important to him and she couldn't let anything jeopardize that so she'd do whatever she had to. I told her it wouldn't matter and left it at that while Sarah pulled me to the room and gave me my laser gun back. The next morning Sarah told me she had a lead on the Turk so I went with her and Cameron to an Internet cafe of sorts for gamers and business men.

When she sat down, I kept my eye on everything, noticing the cameras everywhere. We got the message for the Turk, the five hundred grand and where to drop it. When we got back to the house I pulled out three hundred grand in cash and almost two hundred and fifty grand in diamonds. We went out to do the drop while John was at school on a field trip and came back without doing the drop only to be blackmailed.

When Sarah told us to let him go, I did and told Sarah. "Something's wrong."

Sarah told Derek to follow him before asking me what wasn't wrong. I shook my head. "He's not a leader, he's a follower. I don't think he's the real Sarkissian."

When John and Cameron returned home with a new car and a dead guy in the trunk. Derek returned and told us he lost him before saying we had to move. I agreed only John disagreed until the female that was with Carlos came covered in blood. She said she knew where the guy was after the fake Sarkissian called and told Cameron to kidnap the kids the dead guy was following, aka John and Cameron.

I took out a nine millimeter and gave it to the girl before she could elaborate. "Carlos left cash in the safe behind the dog posters in his room. Get it and skip town because the cops may be looking for you for questioning and if you're caught I'll be forced to put a bullet in you."

I gave her the password and she tried to tell us she knew where he was and I told her I knew where he was and when I get ahold of him she didn't want to know what I'm going to do. I closed the trunk and told Cameron to dump and burn it with John while we're gone. The girl left and so did Cameron and John while we took a truck id stollen cause John had the jeep following Cameron. When I pulled into the computer cafe place, we went inside and Sarah put a gun in the cafe owner's face asking where he was.

He pointed us to the back and the fake Sarkissian ran to a panic room, I touched the door and fried it, opening it before he could run and pinning him to the wall. Sarah asked where the Turk was and Derek blew him away when he refused to say. I told her. "He sold it already."

I pulled the hard drive from the computer and put it away before taking the laptop, pulling the power and leaving. I told Sarah to pack when we got back because we were leaving in two days to find another place. She asked why two days and I told her because tomorrow was John's birthday and I wasn't going to make him run then even if I had to kill off the FBI and SWAT combined. Derek said Sarkissian was dead and I told him no. "He was a decoy, a foot soldier in case the real Sarkissian was targeted for his blackmails and other shady shit."

He asked. "Well then who the hell is the real Sarkissian."

I gave him an annoyed look. "We'd know that by now if you hadn't killed him before I could penetrate beyond surface thoughts. Great job jumping the gun. If we were still in the future I'd bust your head for that stunt Lieutenant."

He grimaced and I gave John the hard drive before setting up and disabling the laptop tracking before I turned it on. I didn't find anything of use on the laptop itself except the video surveillance setup for the cafe even if it was no longer hooked up. I passed it to John and called it a night, passing my laser gun to Derek. "You got first watch on metal. Four hour intervals for that stunt you pulled tonight."

The next morning Derek took John out for ice cream while I worked on the hard drive. When John returned, I found the real Sarkissian's file and told Sarah I'd head out for a bit to take care of it. The trouble is that when I finished strapping up, I heard the jeep explode. Less than a minute later the Armenians came in the front door and back, two of them.

They put guns on Sarah and I before I could draw and shot me in the head. The first one failed because I stopped the bullet but the second one got me before I could turn or send the bullet back at him. I woke up on fire and moved, grabbing the guns, ammo and cash stashes before kicking down the back door. I got a vehicle, a change of clothes before I tracked John and Sarah to a car accident where I tracked them to a church.

I had a vehicle so I was moving faster than them and Cameron who was chasing them or so I learned when I caught up to them. I healed them before the eyes of the priest who'd walked in at the wrong time. I told him Spanish that he should choose Faith over proof and hide until what's coming is dealt with. He asked if I was an angel sent from God.

I told him God wouldn't send an angel anymore because it believes in free will and faith over proof and interference. I told him he should go because it was going to get dangerous and he should never speak of what he sees or hears here today. He left to hide and Sarah asked. "You can heal? How come that wasn't in the memories?"

I grunted. "John told me never to reveal it and not to tell anyone for any reason ever. He said less understanding people would confuse me for an angel or a witch and burn me alive, drown me or worse. I trust John."

I stood up and looked to her. "And now I trust you. Besides, it's limited to the knowledge I have of the human anatomy and the body's healing process. How else do you think we made the serum? There is no natural cure for cancer we've been able to find."

John said he was right and I gave a snort. "You just agreed with yourself."

Sarah frowned. "What is the serum then?"

I sighed. "Plasma platelets from my bone marrow with a mega dose of my white blood cells and nanites to keep your body from outright rejecting it all. Basically you'll be immune to everything, never get sick and the cancer will be removed with extreme prejudice. It took John and I several years to perfect it just right and it killed and saved hundreds of lives before we got it right, saving thousands and now you."

I took out the canister and told her. "I've been monitoring your health every night while you sleep and you've lost thirty pounds on a steady diet in the past few months. It's early, but it's also the best time. I'll deal with Cameron, you get yourself better for John…and the baby."

She said she wasn't pregnant and I shook my head. "My body heals, that makes it extremely potent if however very low on the count. That means it's possible even in the sickest woman if we try aren't careful, however extremely unlikely. Unfortunately that also means you need to be more careful now, safer."

I healed her and told her it was new, less than a few days since she conceived, but one of the reasons I'd wanted to deal with Sarkissian alone. I left her and John there healed and safe while I waited for Cameron to come. When she did, we had a smack down drag out fight in the church before I electrocuted her and took her chip out like John asked when he and Sarah came in.

The priest saw it and asked what was going on. I hauled Cameron over my shoulder, dropped a staff of fifty grand in the collection plate and told him to remember what I told him, no questions, no speaking of it, just living in as normal a life as he can get. I put Cameron in the van I stole and got in the driver's seat as John and Sarah got in.