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lowered her voice enough. "It is complicated." Sarah glared because the terminator was blatantly trying to avoid the conversation. She was always amazed at how Cameron had learn such human characteristics that terminators normally could not adopt. "Alright... let's try something simpler." She gradually arched an eyebrow. "You've never told us your model type... what is it" The terminator tried to remain indifferent and merely replied, "I do not have one." "Cameron," Sarah snarled, "all terminators have a model number." "Not all," Cameron argued back, "Not prototypes." Sarah clenched her hands in front of her because she felt like a badly paid dentist yanking teeth out of the terminator. She took a deep, calming breath but through gritted teeth, she checked, "Then you are a prototype" "Yes, I am technically a hybrid... between the T-800 and T-1000 models." Sarah muttered, "A T-900 then." "No, I am not apart of the T-900 Series." Sarah touched her aching brow and went back to the original topic. "Why would Skynet go through all this trouble just to terminate a prototype" Then another thought occurred to her. "And aren't prototypes considered imperfect and have flaws" "It is my flaw as to why Skynet wants me returned and terminated." Cameron didn't have all the facts, yet she easily theorized what had happened upon her absence from Skynet's control. "I do not have any imperfection such as bad software or hardware. However, Skynet considers me flawed because I am self-aware." "But isn't Skynet self-aware too" After Cameron's nod, Sarah grew more confused. "Then how is that a flaw" "I can reject Skynet's orders." Sarah blinked a few times and went through the new information. "Now it makes sense." She shifted away from the terminator then sat down on the floor. She leaned against the bars and propped up her legs. She stared up at the terminator, who was in a form of a petite girl in her teens. Sarah leaned her head against the bar behind her. "It's like bees." Cameron tilted her head. "Please explain." "Skynet is the queen of the hive and all the terminators are worker bees with set orders." Sarah licked her chapped lips. She let the metaphor washover her and Cameron. "If one bee leaves the hive then they're useless and if one bee is as big as the queen then..." "A threat is posed to the hive," Cameron finished. "Yes." Sarah Connor stared up at Skynet's threat to the hive. "If you can reject Skynet's orders then how can they reset you"
The terminator decided to sit as well, which caused her chains to rattle in protest. She sat cross legged and rested her shacked hands in her lap. "All terminators are preprogrammed with basic subroutines such as killing humans and following Skynet's orders. Then Skynet chooses how to build upon the base programming in the terminator with software for human infiltration, supply management, reconnaissance, rogue hunting, and so on." "In your case, you were built for human infiltration." Cameron nodded but further revealed, "But Skynet took my programming further than any terminator's normal human infiltration by making me self-aware. Skynet determined it would allow me to better infiltrated human Resistance camps at a faster rate. And Skynet was right because I can infiltrate a human camp in seven days versus an average of two months for other terminators." Sarah could barely absorb it all. "So, this reset isn't exactly resetting you" Cameron peered up from her shackled wrists and her HUD flickered briefly. She turned off the HUD display that had a diagnostic read on the reset. "My brain is a computer therefor my human infiltration programming is being formatted. I will then reset back to my basic subroutines." "Formatted... wiped clean," Sarah concluded. Her stomach twisted at Cameron's confirming nod. She wanted to ask more but the plane's dip told her they were dropping altitude. Cameron gazed up when the lights softly dimmed in the cargo bay. She carefully climbed to her feet and saw that Sarah did the same. The metal door whined when it was opened and a soldier in blue military fatigue ordered, "Get buckled up. It'll be a bumpy landing." He slammed the door shut. The guards backed away from the cage and pushed the seats down that were anchored into the plane's metal wall. They situated the rifles across their laps then buckled up for the landing but never lost visual on their prisoners. Sarah Connor briefly caught sight of lights from the porthole window on the opposite side of the cargo bay. She finally realized that it was dark wherever they were landing tonight. Then a sudden bounce from the plane caused her to tumble. Cameron had better reflexes and stayed upright. She stretched forward as far as her chains allowed her, and she grabbed Sarah, who had fell back towards her. Sarah tried to gain her composure but failed because of a second, harsher bounce that made her crumble back into the terminator. Cameron dropped herself to her knees and protectively pulled the human into her arm. She then dug her left hand into the floor so that they were now safely anchored. "Cameron," Sarah argued to the terminator's help. "You will be tossed around like a ball if I do not hold you." Cameron's point was reinforced when the plane violently jounced worse than last time. Sarah covered the terminator's small hand over her stomach. She then tensed when the lights were shut
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