Author's Note: Hello everybody, this is my sequel to Pursuing Perse. I don't own anything you recognize from the Matrix movies or games unfortunately. What I do own is my versions of Niobe and Perse, anyone you don't know, etcetera. Teen rating is for swearing which could get heavy. Story glossary :
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'First person thoughts.'
"Mental talking"
Authority
Green and black code flowed over Mirage's sight, she followed the ten-year-old dark-olive skinned boy through the lunchtime crowd. 'Time to get to work.' Subtly, she gestured across the street at Doe, the red-haired Blood-drinker nodded and joined her.
Meanwhile…in the afterlife
It was sunny, not a cloud in the sky and the birds chirruped happily as they flew through the trees. However, in a small, white room in a skyscraper far away the atmosphere was anything but cheery.
The soul once known as ex-Agent Smith slammed a fist onto the dark-marble table. His icy-blue eyes flashed as he stared at the atrocity unfolding on the hologram before him, "You must let us do something. We are their friends, we can not just let this happen."
Beside him, his black-haired loves Neo and Trinity nodded and exchanged looks. Across from them stood Captain Li and the being who had summoned them. Kaya, Decider and Deliverer of Souls, whose silver-scaled wings rustled uncomfortably.
Kaya's eerily bright-green eyes were unusually dull. She smoothed her white dress as she said, "I'm sorry, you must because I can't."
Captain Li growled and they, Neo and Trinity in particular, demanded, "Why the Hell not ?"
Kaya bowed her head, long black-hair falling over her face, "I am just a Decider, and I don't have the authority to let you."
The steel door opened and the soul of Officer Tony Morris stalked in. Hazel-eyes, just like Niobe's, were angry, "Screw authority, I'm Tony's Granddad. Kaya, at least, let me warn my daughter."
"I'm really sorry, I know how you feel she's my friend too. It's just Niobe and Perse must do this alone as much as they can."
He exclaimed, "Damn it. This is not fair."
Neo shook his head, "We're dead, Smith, we're not supposed to interfere without orders from a Decider, because we're not strong enough on our own, you know that."
'I am going to shoot something if I don't get out of here.' The ex-Agent snarled and stalked past the winged-being out into the hallway.