The FANFIX
Epilogue
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As soon as the IM began, they began tracking it.

"Hello, out there," appeared on the screen. "It's me, Neo Morpheus."

The tracking system stopped and the words "SYSTEM FAILURE" appeared.

"Yoy must be really proud of this world you've created. Especially since it's a collection of fanfics ... within a fanfic that's one of a collection of fanfics. I know you're afraid of change. But change is coming. I'm going to show all these people that with a little work and determination ... the sky's the limit."

He got off the computer and left the internet café. He looked up at the sky, which was, indeed, the limit.

An airplane flying above the pay phone at this moment might have seen the young man flying up into the sky wearing what looked like a Superman outfit ... only with an N in place of the S.

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So, that's how the story began. And then Neo Morpheus changed the rules, so that everyone could use the Fanfix pretty well if they just knew how. Now, people weren't "released" and extracted from those boxes. They were bodily teleported from their fic to the "middle-world" in between the Fanfix and the real world.

I said anyone could use the Fanfix however they wanted, but it still took effort and concentration, and we couldn't change the basic things as well as the One could. Still, once you got the knack for it, it was easier.

Of course, those who had already been freed from the Fanfix -- the head honchos at Zoner, for instance -- didn't react well to the news that they were still in a fanfic. The good news was that they could still do anything they wanted. The Oracle claimed to have already known about the "middle-world"; nobody doubted him.

And the Oracle, when the One first visited Zoner in person, said that he was the real One, but to be truly victorious over the Agents, they needed to find the Two and the Three.

And there's still the matter of Agent Elrond. We've gotten a hold of about a hundred of the fragments so that the Agents can't get him again, but there was still a million pieces. If the Agents find them all again, they could reconstruct him, and that wouldn't be nice.

I know what you're thinking: where am I, in this story? Well, the truth is, this isn't where my part begins. I just thought it'd be nice for you to know how Nebulus found the One before telling you how they found me.

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The brown-haired young woman giggled, reading the fanfic. "Oh, man, this is great," she said.

Her boyfriend, who happened to be the author, walked in. "What's so funny?" he said.

"This Matrix parody you wrote, Yar," she said. "It's hilarious."

"Matrix parody?" said the author. "Mackenzie, where did you find it?"

"On FanFiction.Net," she said. "Why? What's wrong?"

He stared at the screen. "Uh, Kenzy ... I didn't write a Matrix parody. I wrote this Mega Man X fic about a hacker called Neo Morpheus ..."