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Rossbach had spent the time fleeing southward: by jet aircraft, private plane,
truck, riverboat… and now on foot through the jungle.

Like traveling through time, John Connor thought as he slashed through another
damned something-like-a-banana-plant, flicking aside the big wet leaves with his
machete.

His arms no longer actually hurt, but his chest and shoulders burned from the
constant effort. Guess I won't have to worry about staying buff anytime soon. He
remembered to shift hands, using his left a little more than his right. That kept
the calluses and the muscles balanced, and it never hurt to improve your
coordination with the weaker hand.

They'd wandered from the twenty-first century through the twentieth and the
nineteenth. And now we're back at the dawn of man, John thought, spitting as
something bugish hit him in the mouth and sneezing at the smell of pungent sap.
He forced his way through the gap he'd created, slashed again, took another three
steps, slashed…

It would be good to stop for a while; it would be even better when they finally
found the trail. He kept his eyes lowered most of the time, flicking his glance
upward toward the multiple canopies above now and then. You got a blinding
headache if you didn't do that occasionally— one of the tricks of jungle travel
his mother and her succession of boyfriend instructors had taught him before he
was ten. That was back when he was in the first, little-kid phase of believing in
Skynet and Judgment Day and his mission to save humanity from the machines.

A little while after that, he'd turned ten and joined the majority, convinced that
his mother was a total weirdo and deserved to be in the booby hatch—which was
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where she'd been at the time, caught trying to blow up a computer factory. He'd
been stranded with foster parents when she was caught: he'd always privately
called the pair the Bundys from Hell.

Not that they'd deserved what happened to them. For a few seconds Todd and
Janelle had gotten incontrovertible proof that a mad super-computer in the future
really was sending back human-looking murder machines; in fact, the proof was
the last thing they over saw.

A little while after that, he'd met his first Terminator and started believing his
mother again—the way people believed in rocks, trees, and taxes, because he'd
experienced it, and seen the bodies the Terminators left behind.