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Chapter 1

Jessica rubbed her face in a weary gesture. She sat alone in the school library, an old history book open on her lap. She looked up at the clock and saw that it was just past midnight. She heard someone walking quietly down the steps and logic told her the only person awake at this hour would be Logan. Her borrowed powers confirmed that, it also told her that he was heading towards the kitchen for a drink of soda, the next best thing to beer in his opinion.

You see, Jessica wasn't what Professor Xavier would call a typical mutant – if there was such a thing. She was a failed experiment to make the ultimate weapon; her own DNA had been so badly messed with that when she first awoke the scientists thought she was mad. They tried unsuccessfully to remove her from that frame of mind.

They eventually gave up six years later when they realised that she had gained a conscience. Her own powers were coming to a head at the time: the more time she spent around the scientists that had 'created' her the more intelligent she became. The scientists threw her out onto the streets, hoping for her to die from starvation.

When she had spent a year on the streets she was found by the infamous X-Men, offering her shelter, a warm bed and a place to live as well as a place to learn how to control her newfound powers.

As the years went by Jessica gained other mutant's powers, by the time she was sixteen she had minimal control over her power and had copied nearly all of the mutants at the school. Now at eighteen she had graduated with honours and now remained at the school as a teacher.

Jessica looked down at the book in her lap and sighed silently to herself. The history book wasn't hooking her like it usually did. On silent feet she stood up, replacing the book on the shelf before letting herself out of the window behind her.

She took a deep calming breath before she spread her wings and took flight, enjoying the feel of the air in her black hair. She flew away from the grounds, going to the city.

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Jessica watched as a woman in what appeared to be shiny leather fought a man in a suit. She knew she wasn't supposed to interfere in a human fight but the way these two were fighting was starting to scare her.

She took a deep breath before she pulled her wings close to her body.

"Below there!" Jessica called out, causing the woman to jump back as she landed in between them. Jessica straightened up, her blue eyes flashing dangerously at the man in front of her. "Not in my territory bub," she said.

The man stared at her before taking off, realising what he was probably going to get into. Jessica slowly turned to the woman behind her.

"Are you alright?" the woman asked, her eyes hidden behind black tinted lenses.

Jessica nodded. "I am alright, how about you?" she asked.

The woman nodded. "Who are you?"

Jessica smiled. "Jessica."

"Trinity," the woman replied. She looked at Jessica speculatively. "Do you want out of the system?" Jessica looked at her curiously. "Have you every felt that you are living a dream?"

Jessica laughed. "Then my dream is extremely sadistic," she replied. "What do I have to do?"

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Morpheus looked at the woman in front of him. She seemed to genuinely want to leave the Matrix. She also seemed a little bit tired as he studied her.

"Unfortunately," he continued from where he had left off earlier when he had started to look at her. "No one can be told what the Matrix is… you have to see it for yourself." He delved into one of his pockets and pulled out the container that held the two different coloured pills. He opened and put one in each hand, holding them out to Jessica. "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back… You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake up and believe what you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes."

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Jessica looked between the two different pills, she had had times where she had felt as though she was trapped in an invisible cell that she couldn't touch, taste or feel. The red pill would show what the prison was, though she wouldn't be able to return back to the mansion like she would have liked to. The blue pill would let her forget this meeting, although she would continue to feel trapped.

She finally made up her mind and reached for the red pill. She picked it up gently and tossed it into her mouth and took it dry, ignoring the cup of water on the table to her right, before looking at Morpheus.

"Remember," he said. "All I'm offering you is the truth: nothing more." Morpheus half smiled at her before he stood up. "Follow me….."

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Morpheus led Jessica through another set of double doors into the room where they unplugged people. He looked to Apoc.

"Apoc," he said. "Are we online?"

The man looked at him. "Almost," he replied as Trinity and he continued to wire what seemed to be a complete system of monitors, modules and drives.

He led Jessica to a chair in the middle of the room. "Time is always against us," he said. "Please take a seat there."

Jessica looked at him cautiously before she removed her outer coat and sat down, the coat folded carefully on her lap. She looked at the computer terminals and wires, curiously.

"You did all this?" she asked quietly, obviously in awe.

"Uh huh," Trinity replied.

"The pill you took is part of a tracing program. It's designed to disrupt you input/output carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location," Morpheus explained.

Jessica looked confused for a moment before nodding. "I understand the theory somewhat," she said.

She looked at an old cracked mirror on a dressing table nearby. She reached out to touch the mirror as it seemingly repaired itself at her touch. When she brought her hand back part of the mirror stuck to her hand.

To Morpheus' surprise she didn't look at him, astonished that the impossible had happened, instead she looked at the substance coating her hand in wonder. She had obviously seen some improbable things in her life.

As she continued to look at it, it began to 'consume' her hand and slowly her arm.

"It's going into replication!" Trinity said.

"Apoc?" Morpheus asked.

"Still nothing."

The liquid had by then worked it's way up to Jessica's shoulder and was starting on her neck and Morpheus could see her trying to move her head away from the liquid.

"Cold," she murmured. "So cold!"

Morpheus took out the cellular phone he kept with him and quickly dialled a number.

"Tank," he said. "We're going to need a signal soon."

Jessica now started to panic as her head tipped up as if she was sinking into the mirror, trying to keep on breathing.

"We've got a fibrillation!" Trinity said from her computer.

"Apoc!" Morpheus said urgently. "Location!"

"Targeting," Apoc replied. "Almost there!"

By now Jessica was almost consumed by the liquid, squirming in an attempt to get it off as it worked it's was up her face.

"She's going into arrest!" Trinity said urgently.

"LOCK!" Apoc said. "I got her!"

"Now, Tank!" Morpheus said into the phone. "Now!"

The liquid worked itself into her mouth and Jessica screamed in agony before she disappeared.

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