The Matrix Reborn
By Silent Cobra
Standard Disclaimers apply, Serenity is mine. Spoiler warning. Post revolutions.
Dedicated to Tari, for kicking me in the ass enough times to actually make me look at this story again, as well as my other ones.
A nice author's note: Okay, so I believe that the end of Revolutions was left open. Did Neo die? Maybe, maybe not. If you don't agree with it, here's something difficult to do…hit the back button.
In other words, do not flame this story because you don't like it. It's a FANFICTION.
Thank you.
Cobra
Prologue
It was over, finally. The long war against the machines was finished…but at a high price. Trinity and Neo…were dead. Peace was gained…Zion was saved…but still…they were gone.
Neo's body lay atop the machine. They watched him silently. He had rid the system of Smith. Good thing, too, because they couldn't control him.
There is another.
Another human? The main machine core 'looked' at the Sentinel.
Yes, in a ship. Female.
Bring her.
And so she was brought. She was placed next to Neo, her black hair falling around her. The machine stared.
They both live.
Barely, but they were alive. For how much longer was uncertain.
Shall we reboot them into the system?
Yes, we shall erase the memories they have of this world, and they will return to the Matrix.
And it was done.
ZION
Niobe stared at the small vial in her hand. It couldn't be, it simply couldn't be. Morpheus looked at her.
"What is that?"
"Trinity gave it to me…she said…"
"Said what?"
"Never mind…" Niobe walked alone down the halls of Zion. They had won yes, but at a price that was incomprehensible.
Link looked up as she walked in. "What is that?"
"Do you have an embryonic machine?"
"Excuse me? Is that what I think it is?"
"And what do you think it is?" Morpheus walked up behind them.
"An embryo, perhaps?"
Niobe smiled bleakly.
"Is it yours, Niobe?" Morpheus asked.
"No, you idiot. Remember what I said?"
"Trinity…oh shit!"
"Trinity? You mean that's Trin's?"
"Yes, Link. Before…before she and Neo left for the machine city, she…asked me to remove it…she knew she wasn't coming back, but she wanted her child…her and Neo's child, to have a chance at life."
Link nodded. "I got a machine for you."
They inserted the tiny embryo, all that was left of a love that was dead.
How could this have happened? That damn Mr. Anderson, he always ruined everything. Smith groped for his glasses. Where in the hell was he?
Smith.
Oh shit, Smith thought.
You should be dead.
"Well, yes, that's what I thought."
But then, so should the One, and he lives.
"HE WHAT!" Smith yelled.
QUIET!
Smith recoiled from the machine.
Since you live, we shall give you the same fate as the One.
"And that would be?"
You will become human, and you shall be plugged into the Matrix, and you will not remember anything of this world, or what you have done.
"No…You can't do that!"
But we already have.
And so it was done. Smith was now a human battery.
9 MONTHS LATER
Niobe, Morpheus, Link, Zee, and Michael stood above the small child. She had pale white skin, and startling blue eyes. She looked at them with an intelligence they had never seen.
"She is the daughter of Neo and Trinity?" Michael asked.
"Yes."
"What should we name her?"
Niobe picked up the small white girl. "Serenity."
AN: I hope you like this so far, it'll get better, just had to set the stage. Please review.