Chapter 2
Trinity found herself next to Neo in a very familiar subway station, she looked at him with a puzzled expression. Neo turned to her smiling, sensing, seeing her thoughts and questions, he put a finger to her lips.
"Just wait Trinity" he said mysteriously. "This is weird for everyone including me, but the answers will come, be patient."
Trinity nodded, a black hair falling across her face, she reached up and pushed it back behind her ear.
Neo started walking up the stairs behind them and suddenly she saw two identical people walk across the entrance one after the other.
"Shit" Trinity muttered to herself, "déjà vu, something's been changed, another glitch in the Matrix"
She started after Neo, he didn't seem to have noticed the change, suddenly the stairs gave way beneath her and she felt herself tumbling over and over until she hit something soft and wet. It was a bubble, with a female human inside, she recognized her mother.
Trinity had never seen the endless fields of humans that the machines fed off, as far as she could see there were towers of purple bubbles and electrical currents flowing up and down, a sight usually saved for a sci-fi or horror movie, except this was real. This WAS real, no longer the computer generated world of the Matrix, this was Earth in the present year, this was real, no streets, no houses, no malls, no movie theatres, no sun, just a dark, dismal, dangerous landscape.
She was suddenly propelled back into the subway, Neo was next to her and she flung herself on him.
"What the hell happened?" she cried, "I thought the machines had found us!"
"It was me Trin, I changed the code, and I changed the Matrix. I have the power to do that."
Suddenly Neo held up his hand, a large bullet stopped inches away from Trinity's head.
"Sniper, 3 o'clock" he said quickly and drawing an MP5 from inside his trench coat he snapped off two rounds and Trinity found she could see their path through the code. Neo was moving the bullets as they flew! They moved from side-to-side and at one point sped off to the right and then looped back round! Suddenly they split and launched a pincer attack on the hidden Agent. The machine had no chance, the two 9mm rounds hit the head at exactly the same time, there was a momentary flash and a fizzing noise and an FBI sharp shooter appeared where the headless agent had fallen.
Trinity gazed in wonder at Neo, who just holstered his weapon and turned back towards the phone.
"Tank, exit" Neo said into his mobile.
"Gotcha Neo," Tank replied in a breathless voice, "the subway is still operational, how the fuck did you just do that?"
"I'll speak to you all later Tank, tell Morpheus I need to speak to him as soon as I'm back"
With that Neo slid his phone into a pocket and taking Trinity by the arm led her to the phone in the subway.
Trinity found herself next to Neo in a very familiar subway station, she looked at him with a puzzled expression. Neo turned to her smiling, sensing, seeing her thoughts and questions, he put a finger to her lips.
"Just wait Trinity" he said mysteriously. "This is weird for everyone including me, but the answers will come, be patient."
Trinity nodded, a black hair falling across her face, she reached up and pushed it back behind her ear.
Neo started walking up the stairs behind them and suddenly she saw two identical people walk across the entrance one after the other.
"Shit" Trinity muttered to herself, "déjà vu, something's been changed, another glitch in the Matrix"
She started after Neo, he didn't seem to have noticed the change, suddenly the stairs gave way beneath her and she felt herself tumbling over and over until she hit something soft and wet. It was a bubble, with a female human inside, she recognized her mother.
Trinity had never seen the endless fields of humans that the machines fed off, as far as she could see there were towers of purple bubbles and electrical currents flowing up and down, a sight usually saved for a sci-fi or horror movie, except this was real. This WAS real, no longer the computer generated world of the Matrix, this was Earth in the present year, this was real, no streets, no houses, no malls, no movie theatres, no sun, just a dark, dismal, dangerous landscape.
She was suddenly propelled back into the subway, Neo was next to her and she flung herself on him.
"What the hell happened?" she cried, "I thought the machines had found us!"
"It was me Trin, I changed the code, and I changed the Matrix. I have the power to do that."
Suddenly Neo held up his hand, a large bullet stopped inches away from Trinity's head.
"Sniper, 3 o'clock" he said quickly and drawing an MP5 from inside his trench coat he snapped off two rounds and Trinity found she could see their path through the code. Neo was moving the bullets as they flew! They moved from side-to-side and at one point sped off to the right and then looped back round! Suddenly they split and launched a pincer attack on the hidden Agent. The machine had no chance, the two 9mm rounds hit the head at exactly the same time, there was a momentary flash and a fizzing noise and an FBI sharp shooter appeared where the headless agent had fallen.
Trinity gazed in wonder at Neo, who just holstered his weapon and turned back towards the phone.
"Tank, exit" Neo said into his mobile.
"Gotcha Neo," Tank replied in a breathless voice, "the subway is still operational, how the fuck did you just do that?"
"I'll speak to you all later Tank, tell Morpheus I need to speak to him as soon as I'm back"
With that Neo slid his phone into a pocket and taking Trinity by the arm led her to the phone in the subway.