Matrix 2
Her right hand clenched in a fist over her stomach, Trinity stumbled towards Tank's crouched hulk over the computers.
"What's going on?" She asked, suppressing a yawn with one hand and grabbing the back of his chair with the other to prevent herself falling over.
"There are five sentinels on our tail." He replied, glancing at her. "I'm trying to set her down but as you can see, she's shaking. She's not used to so much pressure being put on her, and with so little power."
At that, the Nebuchadnezzar lurched again and then finally settled. His fingers flew around the keyboard a second longer and then he turned to her. "This is the last EMP that we can take. No more, and we still have three days till Zion."
She nodded in understanding, looking around the ruined ship. It had been totally ruined after the sentinels had ravaged it and then finally been killed by the EMP. They only had a very small amount of energy left.
A small scuff of a shoe on the floor startled Trinity into turning quickly, she saw a flash of grey and then her mouth smothered in Neo's. Blushing she pushed him away, feeling embarrassed as Tank watched.
"Hey, I got my own girl in Zion, Trin, don't you remember Isis?" He turned around and tapped more into the keyboard.
Neo slipped his arm around her waist and stayed there, even as he questioned Tank.
"Trinity, up here now." She heard the full voice of Morpheus float down the ladder. "Sentinels."
Breaking away from Neo's warm and inviting grasp she flew up the ladder to where Morpheus was sitting, watching the blackness for the sentinels.
"I need to speak with you." He whispered, squinting into the dark.
"Mmm." She answered, not paying any attention as she swung around in the chair and tapped into a small keyboard. "What about?"
She searched the sky for any sign of the sentinels as Morpheus flipped up the lid to the EMP switch.
"It's about..." He trailed off as a set of sentinels came into view. Trinity took in a sharp breath as three turned and pointed all their spindly, long arms at the Nebuchadnezzar. After a few short seconds where Trinity was certain her heart had stoped beating, two retracted their arms and floated off. But one inched closer until Morpheus' knuckles were white, trying not to turn the switch.
"Morpheus, if we flick the EMP on this one, the others will kill the Nebuchadnezzar." She whispered frantically. "We don't have enough power for two charges."
"I know Trinity, I know." He answered, his knuckles turning an unbelievably whiter white. Suddenly the sentinel flew straight at the ship. Trinity frantically typed into the small keyboard but to no avail. The ship lurched sharply as it landed on the hull and then shuddered again as Morpheus flicked the switch. Shuddering physically, Trinity looked up to be devastated by the sight of the rest of the set of sentinels came rushing for the Nebuchadnezzar. "Trinity, get up now."
Morpheus yelled at her, pulling on her arm. She leapt out of her chair and climbed down the stairs as fast as possible. She ran into Neo and then fell over in a heap as the rest of the sentinels hit the ship and started to tear it apart.
"We're lucky we're already on the ground." Neo yelled over the noise, he grabbed her arm and started to drag her towards the bottom of the ship, where they could escape and try to get to Zion on foot. She ran full pelt; not remembering being this tired or scared since the agents had nearly got her when they were looking for Neo.
"Jump." She heard the single command screamed at her. She stood at the lip of the hole that stood about ten metres of the ground of the real world. Trinity closed her eyes and jumped into the dark of her mind.
Searching.
Search terminated.
Unknown.
Unable to track line.
"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
Click.
Trinity opened her eyes slowly, then clenching them tight again. The pain in her right shoulder gave away the fact that she was still alive and was definitely still working. A moan escaped her lips and she opened her eyes again to see Neo's very worried face poked in her. She roughly pushed him away and sat up.
"Ooohhh." She moaned grasping her skull in both hands and then moved her right to clutch in a fist over her abdomen. She leant over and vomited on the damp and cold earth. Shivering, she felt a strong arm across her shoulders, trying to keep her warm, supporting her. She wiped her mouth with the back of the left hand, leaving her right still clenched over her abdomen. Looking up into Neo's warm inviting eyes, she finally broke down.
For ages, they sat there; Neo rocking the sobbing Trinity, felling her pain and misery seep away. After a few long moments, Trinity finally, pulled away and stood up, wiping away her tears.
"I'm sorry, I'm not normally this emotional." She said, wobbling around, before Neo stood up quickly and grabbed her before she fell. She shook her head, more for herself than Neo. He obliged by letting her go with no warning and as she stumbled he grabbed her again. "That's cheating."
Her thin voice told Neo how wounded she really was and he lay her back down on the cold ground. "You aren't well. You need rest."
He placed a small blanket over her frail body and stared at her beautiful face. With her eyes closed, she looked less fierce and she looked vulnerable, something very un-Trinity like. He sat there for hours, watching her, until she finally started to stir. He watched her volt awake and stare at him in the darkness.
"You went back." She stated it as a fact. "How?"
"I just did." He shrugged his shoulders and shivered in the cool air that surrounded the planet. "I plugged myself into the Matrix with my mind and I was there."
She nodded, taking a brief look around. By the feel of goose bumps on her skin she could tell that they were in the real world.
"Where's Tank? And Morpheus?" She asked him watching him stand up and drape the holey blanket over their shoulders.
"Morpheus disappeared after we bailed from the Neb. And I think Tank went to Zion." He replied, shivering in the cold. She sat there thinking and suddenly realised the implication of what he was saying. She stared at him for a second and smiled.
"You really are the One you know." She muttered, he looked at her and she repeated it louder. "You can plug yourself into the Matrix and out without an exit?"
He nodded soberly. She smiled, "Show me..."
She didn't get very far. In a flash she was standing in the corridor where Neo had died, and she had saved him. She looked down at her leather-clad body and smiled as Neo came in from the room where the exit lay.
"I can only get close to exits." He said, walking up to her and placing his arms around her hips. She smiled and replied by putting her arms around his neck and kissing him. A long playful kiss became more urgent as he pushed her up against the wall, his hands searching her body and their kisses more angry.
Roughly she pushed him away, a more annoyed at herself than Neo. "Not here. Agents can still track us and know every move."
"Embarrassed?" He asked, a smile playing across his lips. She looked him up and down and took in his dress code. A black, tight shirt, black pants, a long black trench coat and black boots. "Or just..."
"Shhhhh." She stepped forward and placed her index finger over his lips, silencing him. He smiled under her gaze. "Can you hear that?"
