Re: Steve/John
"I don't expect him to invite us to his secret hideaway," he said with a grin that didn't last lost. People here didn't smile, since they were pretty broken.
"Plan is to get out. I was thinking around the Hollywood sign, high ground, gives people the opportunity to go anywhere, and it's a place with no structures so we don't get killed being teleported inside a wall or something." They still needed a way to get into the resistance for the next step. "Time travel, right? So time travel we do. We're from the future, we have science, we can get them out. How difficult would that be to sell? We can show him enough to convince him that we can do what we say we can do."
He nodded. "Everyone. I'm not leaving people here to be tortured and slaughtered. And apparently, Stephen's magic gets the machines' attention. It was pretty quick. No way he'll be able to keep those portals open long enough for everyone to get through. We could have him go from one barrack to the next with a small group of people, but we still have to protect the barrack he's in."