It's back from the dead. The story that keeps on going through the trilogy, is now back to life.

I know that you've been waiting for it to keep going, but the Original Series, and Family Request Fic, as well as Other Fics have been catching up to me, trying to make me accept them.

I'm going to give you what you've been waiting for with this. I'm taking this story to all sorts of wild places, and you're all along for the ride.

Please review after you enjoy…

Chapter 25: Meeting The KeyMaker

Desdemona

She kept her eye on the feed, looking for the abnormality. There was always a change in the code, and it is usually never good.

Currently, the code read normal. The usual Chinese and Japanese symbols interspersed read good.

It was the Korean symbols, the Asian letters that were all straight lines, that meant something was wrong.

She kept scanning the feed.

"Link." She called, still facing the feed.

"Yo," the man replied "We have anything wrong."

"No, not at the moment," she replied. She paused, and saw it. It was a percent sign. These meant an essential program was nearby. "Scratch that," she continued "We're approaching an essential program to The Matrix."

"An agent?" Link asked "Is it a trap?"

"No, if it were an agent, there'd be a pi symbol. I saw a percent sign." she explained "That means a code changing program is nearby."

"That makes sense," he replied "They're going to see the KeyMaker. He's a program like that."

"I'll keep a watch then." She replied "I recommend scanning for a Korean letter. They're Asian letters made of only straight lines."

"I'll keep an eye out." Link added.

Desmond

He had to admit, his aunt and uncle knew how to live. Their house was very ornate.

They passed one of his new favorites. It was a room filled with medieval weapons, all surrounding a set of stairs.

His Aunt took them down the hallway on the first story of that, and into a long hallway.

They passed seven doors, when they reached the sixth on the right, where Persephone motioned for them to stop.

"In this door," she explained "You will find the KeyMaker. Go from there."

With that, she opened the door for the four of them, and revealed the room.

It was about 20 by 16, and full of keys.

All along the walls, held onto by key-hooks. Keys of all shapes and sizes, using at least five different metals. They were all there, testament to a master locksmith.

Desmond couldn't believe his eyes. He whistled, a fluid decrescendo.

Looking forward, at the other side of the room, there was the only piece of furniture in the room.

A workbench with an attached stool was at the far end. In the stool, hunched over a grinder, was a small little Asian-looking man.

"I'll leave the four of you now." Persephone announced, leaving the door open and walking away.

"Bye Aunt Persephone." Desmond called as she walked away.

"Goodbye Desmond." She returned "Say hi to your sister for me."

Desmond looked back in the room.

It seemed the KeyMaker had started using a file on the key he was making. "Are you the Mero's executioners?" he asked

"No," Morpheus answered "We're currently here to rescue you. The One needs your help."

"So you've finally found him." The KeyMaker replied, turning around.

What was on his waist really caught Desmond's eye.

There was whole key-rings, almost completely full of keys.

"You've got a lot of time on your hands." Desmond commented "I doubt that there are even this many locks in the world."'

"There are, and millions more." The Keymaker replied "The whole world is full of locks, and for every lock, there has to be a key."

"True that." Desmond replied "Let's get you outta here."

"I agree with Desmond." Morpheus added "Let's go."

With that, they started to make their way up the hall.

Desdemona

She was currently scanning the feed, looking for a abnormality, one that everyone else couldn't pick up on.

There were always symbols that meant something, a little thing for each big event.

It was like the Matrix was a multi-part system, using little programs that built into the bigger ones.

Each symbol seemed to be a password to an event in The Matrix, a precursor leading to the next.

Each symbol seemed to mean something, they were never just random.

It seemed that while others saw the whole picture from multiple pieces of code, she could see how each played to form it. No one even got what she meant. She always had to explain each one.

"Anything new?" Link asked, tapping her on the shoulder.

She quickly scanned the feed. She then saw a symbol that was never good. It was an X. Those were never put in unless it was a very rare thing; a virus.

"We've got a virus coming towards them!" she called, pointing at the feed.

Multiple X's dotted the feed for a few moments, before showing the code back to a pure image.

It seemed a pair of white-suited, dreadlocked al bino twins were headed their way with more henchmen.

"You've got to warn them." She instructed.

"Right on it." Link replied, typing a command into the console.

Desmond

His mobile rang. It was the China-rule of thirds ringtone. That meant it was an operator at the other end.

He grabbed it, and pressed receive.

"What is it Link?" he asked.

"You guy's got the Mero's henchmen after you." Link explained "Find a way outta there."

"We've got to jet." Desmond explained out loud. "Can't leave the way we came." He then put it on speaker.

"You've got a car garage in the door to your right in that weapon place." Link explained "If you can get there, you can get out."

"Right away." Desmond explained, hanging up.

Desdemona

She went back to scanning the code, looking for some way to get them outta there.

The fact remained that the X's were still there. With a little more scanning of the surrounding symbols, she could probably find their weakness, or at least where they were headed.

She looked over the first burst of code, and watched where the X's were. They were currently grouped into a pair.

Then she scanned for the directional letters. W, A, D, and S. they were the directional buttons on a lot of the new games released in The Matrix, but also took the direction marker for where you went.

Even the pirate signal they broadcast left these. Currently, there was a D and an S, at the left of the X's.

"They're going to the down and left." She explained.

"Can't do much about that though." Link replied "Just keep an eye out for what they do next."

I love cliffhangers. The very idea of leaving you wanting more is one of my favorite things.

I think Desdemona and Link make a wonderful team. How about you.

I don't know that unless you review though.