Neo was hard at work on his computer, tapping away at the keyboard, when all at once, the screen went black. He tilted his head to one side, confused. It couldn't be a virus, he'd written the protection software himself. And it was ridiculous to think someone else had hacked into his system – no-one at Wammy's could have broken the encryption he'd put into place around the computer.
A white, blinking cursor appeared on the black screen. Neo frowned, and experimentally tried tapping a few letters on the keyboard. Nothing changed. He pressed ctrl alt del, but again, nothing. Suddenly, words started appearing on the screen.
'Neo…'
Neo's eyes widened in disbelief.
'Wake up Neo…'
There was no way this could be happening to him.
'They're looking for you Neo…'
It couldn't be!
'Follow the white rabbit Neo…'
This wasn't possible!
'Knock knock Neo…'
There was a loud banging noise. Neo jumped, and looked over at his door nervously. He crept cautiously towards the door, and slowly opened it. There was nobody there.
His computer screen had returned to the blank black, and nothing Neo had done would return it to its normal state. Finally, he abandoned it and went downstairs to dinner. It was very late, so there were only a few people there when Neo arrived. In the corner sat two kids – both quite a bit younger than Neo – Matt and Mello, he thought their names were. As he reached the servers, Matt got up, and walked towards him. As he passed, he whispered,
"Knock knock, Neo."