World of Blue

By Tai Wilson

Chapter 1

"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe, whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

Thomas A. Anderson, better known as Neo, sat in a lion chair thinking about what the man who called himself 'Morpheus' had just said. He would have to leave everything behind. He would have to live in what seemed to him was hell on earth, or maybe just hell. He would have to wake up everyday and know the truth: That for hundreds of years humans had been unknowingly batteries for the machines that now ruled the world. He would never be able to return to his old life.

But also, he would know the truth: That for hundreds of years humans had been unknowingly batteries for the machines that now ruled the world. He wouldn't have to return to his old boring life. He could do something that for once really seemed right to him.

Both the choices presented their ups and downs, but which was the right one?

After a minute or so of thinking it over and over in his head, Neo looked up at the man sitting across from him.

"Well?" Morpheus asked. "Which is it, Neo? Red pill or blue?"

Looking at the two pills sitting on the table, Neo chuckled to himself at how they looked just like a DayQuil and NyQuil LiquiCap. One, the red pill, would relieve him of the sickness of the machines; while the other, the blue pill, would also relieve him of the machines, but only by putting him back into the clueless slumber that the rest of the world was in.

"The blue pill." Neo said quickly and defiantly. "I don't want to know this. I don't want to wake up. I'd rather live out my days as a battery for some machine than know that everyone but me was and there was nothing I could do about it."

"But you can-" Morpheus started, but Neo cut him off.

"No! I don't care! I don't want any of this! I don't want to be here!" Quickly he jumped out of his seat. Leaning down somewhat he looked Morpheus right in the eye. "I want to leave, and I want to leave now."

"OK, but remember. Once you do, you can not go back."

"Good." Neo said. Then the grabbed the blue pill and threw it into his mouth. A second later, everything went black.