Chapter 11: The Future- "C"

Written By: Kaleb Fabsik (aka. Krazy Kaleb)

2037 AD


Looking around I saw myself inside what would become the time displacement bunker and Cameron was standing in front of me. She had a set of clothes in her hands. I tried to hide my nakedness from her as I took the clothes from her and put it on. But she didn't even take notice, which made me feel very awkward as she just stared at me without emotion.

The bunker I was in seemed very quiet for a war torn future. I figured that the building must be sound proof so that the machines won't hear us underground. The walls were covered with graffiti. Then I saw a commemoration plate indicating that this must be an old abandoned subway terminal or underground tunnel to an old desolated building, which was dedicated to someone. I read the wording that was partially left over from the destruction, “...memory of: Jack Bauer. The Legendary Man who experienced hell for the sake of all. - January 9, 2011.”

Wow! I thought. That Federal Agent must have been one heroic guy for them to commemorate a building to him. I wonder if he ever figured out what happened? Maybe he helped delay Skynet in some kind of hectic way. That guy sure did seem very determined to stop what he thought was a terrorist attack. He must have been a good patriot to his country. I smiled as I thought about this Jack Bauer Agent and all the sacrifices he may have gone through to save the world from Skynet.

Cameron looked at me ackwardly as I finished my thought and finished dressing. She was carrying what looked like a new version of a PSP in her hands and a game was playing on it. The game looked like it was maybe Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

That thing could attract machines, I thought. She needs to get rid of it.

Cameron warmly said, “Welcome to the future David Tam McFly. John has been waiting for you. You have a lot of work to do. Time to make the time Machine before Skynet does.”

“Lets get to work Cameron.” I said eagerly ready for my new mission.

“Cameron? Cameron, Who?” she replied confused.

“What do you mean? Isn't that your name Cameron?” I replied trying to figure her out.

“No... It's Amanda. Who is this Cameron you speak of?” she asked in reply as she tilted her head to the side trying to understand me.

“Oh... I guess we will find out. Won't we... Where's John?” I said in reply to her and thought. So John hadn't reprogrammed Cameron with her new mission yet... It must be the reason why she doesn't remember or recall her new name.

I looked outside the room and saw John Connor. He looked older, 30 years older. Now I was the young boy and he the man of virtue. Huh, it made sense why he was the leader of The Resistance. His experience and ability to plan things out with extreme precision. So that everything worked out perfectly.

“David! You made it!” John approached me and smiled.

“Your plan worked perfectly John!” I said in reply with a smile. “Not yet.... We need to get started on your Time Machine... We have very little time.” said John as we started to walk to the center of the room of what would eventually be the time displacement lab.



A Few Month's Later...


“So there's my story and I tell you to this day. I will never forget it and I hope my parents Marty and Jennifer will never forget either. We made the time machine just in time to send Kyle back in time and now we are going to fix everything you see here. Where in turn, Derek hated me for but, not as badly as he had before when I had created the machine for Skynet in the other future. I will never stop fighting for the future... NEVER.” I said looking at her very seriously.

“That's a tight story David. Hope you will kept telling me about it in the future.” Cameron said with her hand on my shoulder trying to understand how I was feeling. A trait common for her to do when she was with me due to the untold feelings I had for her and her infiltrator programing. I kind of figured that's how everyone here at Tech-Com felt about her. I wondered what person was she modeled after. “Maybe Derek knew something about her.” I thought.

“Yeah... I already have. You just don't remember because we scrambled your memory last week in the mansion lab.” I said nearly chuckling at the irony of what I was saying. “As a matter of fact, you will live my story and hopefully stop Skynet.”

She smiled at me as I finished telling my story to her about my past and her future mission for the second time.

“David it's time. She needs to go.” said John.

“OK. Cameron you know what to do when John sends you back. Right?” I said.

“Yes, I have all the objectives in my directory just as John has programed. I know what to do. And if I bump into you I am prepared to do my part.” said Cameron.

“Let's go Cameron!” said John Connor in all the more urgency.

Cameron stood up and walked to the time displacement chamber. She winked at John. She then walked into the time displacement sphere and disappears. The time machine started to power down.

“Think she will do her Job and fix all this crap?” I asked John.

“One can only hope. Right?... Well we know your parents survived Judgment day and we prevented you from helping Skynet. Now we know it works. We changed something. Not much but, hopefully we will reap what we sow David.” John said smiling at me.

“Like you always say John, 'The future is not set. The future is whatever we make it.'” I said in earnest hope as I prayed and thought, 'Funny... The world will never truly understand the sacrifices I have made in my life. Just like any other man of this future, I will be forgotten just like the history books of the world...vaporized on Judgment day. Only my God Jehovah will completely understand what I have done...








What Happened In Derek's Past? Find out in the story: First Love By Michelle67d