Roxi's Story
By Larkin Flora
Disclaimer: Trinity, Tank, Neo and Morpheus are not mine(too bad). Roxi, Demi, Calisto, Tes, and Gemini are my original characters (with the help of Amanda)
Training
I woke to the sound of screeching metal. Tessel walked in.
"Good morning sunshine. Sleep well?" I nodded, "Good, you need the energy. You've got training today."
Oh boy, training. Just what I need, sore muscles, I thought
"Don't worry. It'll be easy. You'll just get worn out."
"Oh, I won't worry. Trust me," 'I hope I can take his word,' I thought.
I followed Tessel into the mess room. He gave me a bowl with some slop in it. I didn't care what it was, I was so hungry. So, I just slurped the whole thing down.
After breakfast, I went into the control room. Tank told me to sit down in a chair. Morpheus did the same.
"This may feel a little weird," said Calisto, who was working behind my chair.
He stuck something into my neck and I screamed. Then, it was all over. I was in a white room. Morpheus was standing across from me and two leather chairs were in between us.
"Welcome to the construct. This is our loading system. We can load anything from weapons, to cloths, to hair," Morpheus said.
"You mean, we're in a computer?" I was scared.
"Is it really so hard to believe? Your hair is long again. Your cloths are different. You are in what we call residual self image." He motioned for me to sit and then flipped on the TV that had appeared. "This is the world as you know it. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century," he changed the channel, "This is the real world," We were suddenly sitting in the middle of it all. The great expanse of scorched buildings and sky with constant lightning and clouds. It was terrible.
"Around 2000 man created AI. We rejoiced in our superiority wile the AI grew in intelligence and numbers. We don't know who struck first, us or them. But, we do know we scorched the sky. At the time, it was believed that AI could not survive without such an important and powerful source of energy as the sun. But, we were wrong. A human carries enough energy to feed the AI. And with millions of humans on earth, they never needed anything else again. So what we fight for is to free the human race from the bondage of slavery. You were a slave Roxi. Before we took you out of the Matrix, you were a slave. Our job is to stop the machines from turning humans into this," he held up a battery.
"Well, at least we're long lasting," I said trying to remain calm.
"Tank, take us out," Morpheus called. Then it went black. Wen I opened my eyes, we were back in the control room.
"You will have your training now," said Morpheus, "Tank, load her up."
"You ready for this?" asked Tank.
"As ready as I'll ever be." And I started my training.
Tessel was right, I was tired by the end of the day. I went into the mess room and inhaled two bowls of the slop. Then I went to bed.
I woke up the next morning when Tessel woke me. I hadn't even hear him open the door.
"Time to finish your training. Normally this would take at least a week but you are getting the concepts well. Like Neo did," he smiled at me, "Come on bed head. You'll need your energy again. Go eat." He shooed me out of my room to the mess hall.
I ate a bowl a slop, finally realizing that it tasted like nothing. Then I went to the control room.
"Good morning Roxi," said Morpheus, "Today you'll do a little fighting practice. Trinity will be going in with you. You can practice fighting her and as you get better, you will fight Neo. He has speed similar to an agent's. Good luck" And I got loaded into the program.
"You ready to fight?" asked Trinity.
I got into my starting stance, "Quite." I bowed my head slightly the took a leap at her. She easily jumped out of the way. She kicked me and I flipped her. Then we blocked each others punches, kicks. We ended up in a draw. Both of us breathing heavily.
"You fight well Roxi. Quite well. Later we'll see how you do against Neo."
"Thank you. You too."
"Tank," Trinity said, "Take us out."