Hey guys, this is the first fan fiction I have posted on this website. I have been working on it for a few days and I thought I'd share. Please take the time to read it, and it would really help me improve future stories if you could give me some constructive criticism. There should me more to come soon, and I hope you enjoy... By the way, I own no characters that are featured in the films, so don't sue me please!
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The gentle hum of the ship reached her ears, and slowly she became aware of the soft vibrations of the engine shaking her steadily out of her heavy comatose state. Her limbs lay beside her like lead weights, aching and unresponsive to what she wants them to do.
Even with her eyes closed, she can sense the piecing white light shining on her face, and as she tries to squeeze them closed in a poor effort to stay in calm darkness of her coma. Her brain awakens a slight bit more, becoming aware of the rhythmic beeping she has heard many times before, like when she sits on an evening and watch medical shows. But now, she knows she's the one in that vulnerable state.
With a stark shock, she remembers what happened in a blur. Sitting talking to that man in the dark, cold room, even still feeling intimidated by his large, muscular figure that stood before her. He had took her through to the other room, and after a brief conversation of which she remembers nothing of what she'd agreed, she was given a red pill, none like any other she had seen before. Then the pain came. She remembers the sharp pain that crawled throughout the whole of the body, clutching onto her very heart, and then like a flash of lightening it was gone as soon as it came.
In what felt like the very next moment she was here, waking up, although sure that there was some missing time that filled the spaces in-between her patchy memory.
Her eyes shot open; forgetting the fact that the bright light made her eyes wince, and her breathing became erratic. She has to know what happened, this is her life and she has to know what happened, how on earth could her brain fail her so much at such a crucial time like this?
The sound of quick footsteps clashing against metal caused her look to the right. There he was again, the large man came rushing towards her, though now he didn't look so intimidating without the leather, and instead wearing a thin, partially torn top that clung to his body.
"Pippa" He said, a smile forming on his face. "Shh. calm down, everything's fine" His voice was soft as he gently pushes her shoulders back onto the bed beneath her. His calm presence relaxed her, and after the initial shock, the confusion set in.
She looked past him and gazed around the room she was currently in. All the walls were made of cold, grey steel, and uncovered wires ran this way and that. There were a few computer screens near my bedside that had wires running to various pads on my body. She lay covered with a single sheet on a bed in the centre of the room.
"Welcome, this…. This is the real world." he said, looking me straight in the eyes. It was clear he hadn't done this before to a kid, like he had said to her in that brief conversation before he set her free. Slowly, bits were coming back to her, "It will be risky, we've never freed a child so young before, but we will look after you.', in which she'd replied adamantly "I'm 12 years old, hardly a little kid! …I can look after myself!". Morpheus smiled reminiscently this is something Trinity would have said.
"We've been treating you, your body hasn't been strong enough, but we've re-built your muscles and given you several immunisations. Unfortunately as soon an you were woken up in the field, you became unconscious, and have missed everything."
He explained to her all about the Matrix, the fields and Zion. This had come as a shock to her, but somehow, she already knew it all somewhere in her subconscious. She had learnt to deal with surprises in her life, that she was adopted and then finding out her adopted mother got cancer, which she died of not long after her treatment started. This was life, and she dealt with it, even though now she knows none of it was real.
"But, that is only half the story. I suggest you rest for a while, soon all will become clear" and with a smile, and a pat on her arm, he left silently leaving her mind to revel in all this new information.