A/N
Dear Alina,
I really loved your review and no, you weren't too harsh. Just honest. Please, don't worry. Dreamer is someone far different from Neo and I've got what I hope to be a very good explanation about how she knows all she knows and why she has so much powers.
It is with great pleasure and with great honors that I will accept any critics you could have about this story. And this goes for all my reviewers. (It could give me more ideas ^_^)
And now with the story
*~*~*~*
Chapter 2: To Eden
Trinity was sitting next to Neo. She had not cried for a long time, since that day that she had accepted the red pill in fact. But she could feel her tears, inside her heart. Nothing had changed since that day Neo destroyed the Sentinels. He was in coma, and she was unable to help him.
A hand settled on Trinity's shoulder.
"What do you want, Niobe?"
"I think you would like to know that Dreamer sent us an invitation."
Trinity stood up and, glancing a last time at her love, she followed Niobe. Soon, they were in the meeting room. Morpheus was already there.
"Link found a message inside one of Zion's old mailbox in the Matrix. Dreamer would like us to meet with her and some of her friends. Trinity, do you think we can trust her?"
Trinity took some time to think about that.
"She did help me out. But we know what the Matrix is capable of to oblige us to do what it wants to. Without Neo to tell us if this is a trap or not, I think we should be very careful, even with those saying they are our friends. Particularly with those ones."
Niobe nodded and Morpheus led the way to Link, who was ready to send them in the Matrix, once more.
*~*~*~*
"I'm not sure this is a good idea."
"We went through this, Wolverine. We all agree that Neo is the One. The real One. The One we were waiting for. And now that Zion is no more, Eden will be the next target of the Machines as soon as they will learn where exactly the city is. We need Neo and his team."
Wolverine shook his head, his long blonde hair swaying down his back.
"I'm not arguing with that point, Hera. I say that Dreamer should have stayed in Eden."
"And let you have all the fun? No way in hell. Anyway, they only know me."
Hera smiled as the two younger began another fight. She was very happy to have them both in her team. But sometimes, they acted like children. Their little fight was interrupted by her mobile.
"They are coming." With these three words, the line went dead.
Wolverine and Dreamer stopped their fight at this moment, looking toward the lift. Hera ran a hand through her shoulder-length black hair, hoping that this first meeting would turn out to be a good idea. Eden needed the last of Zion's children. As the lift opened, Dreamer jumped on her feet. Morpheus stepped out of the lift, closely followed by Niobe and Trinity, on each of his sides. All of them were wearing black clothes and glasses. Hera looked at her and her own team. The difference was great, for they were wearing very casual clothes, old jeans with T-shirt.
Morpheus looked at the three people in the room. They seemed as tensed as Morpheus was, except that he didn't show it. Casting a quick glance around, the man saw that he was walking inside what looked like to be a very spacious apartment. It was tastefully decorated and blue was the main color, from the walls to the sofa. A very dark blue phone was in plain sight, on a table just next to the oldest woman.
"Hi there. Hope you didn't have too many difficulties to find the place."
"Your message was very clear, Dreamer, thank you. May I ask why you wanted to see us?"
"We need your help." Hera stood up as she said these words.
"Let me introduce you. This is Hera, the leader of this team. And this big guy is Wolverine."
Nods of acknowledgement were exchanged. Then, Hera talked again.
"You have no reason to trust us. However, with Zion destroyed, you need shelter in the real world. We need soldiers to defend Eden. Who better than Zion's survivors."
"Eden is a myth." Niobe said.
"So was Zion for most of us, before we learnt its destruction."
"How could we trust you?"
"Dreamer saved Trinity."
"The Matrix has sometimes weird ways to destroy us."
"If we wanted you dead, Dreamer would have killed you already. She has some very particular powers over the Matrix. We all have."
Dreamer was looking in Trinity's eyes, and Trinity was staring back. The girl finally took a step forward.
"My name is Selina Carter. I was born some 19 years ago. I live in Eden, the now last human city in the real world. And I think I can wake Neo up from his coma."
Now, Morpheus and Niobe were staring at the girl too. Trinity's face didn't show any of her feelings and her voice was perfectly under control when she spoke.
"What do you know about that?"
"The Matrix has its ways. You must have said something about that in here. The Matrix heard and stored this in its database. We have very good hackers and very good Matrix code readers. Neo fought the Sentinels. The electric bolt needed to court-circuit them was too much for his body. And why do I think that I can wake him? Because something quite similar happen to someone before. And he was brought back among us safely."
No one spoke for some times after that. Finally, Hera cleared her throat.
"We won't tell you where Eden is. Not here anyway. One of our ships we will be waiting for you next to Zion's ruins in one hour. Are you near enough to be there?"
"Yes." Was Morpheus's answer.
"Dreamer will be outside, so you will see that we really are humans. Then, we will guide you to Eden."
Hera held a hand out to Morpheus. With a slight hesitation, the man took it and they shook hands.
"I don't promise anything."
"You don't need to, Morpheus. Just say to Zion's survivors that they are welcome if they want to come in Eden."
Morpheus nodded and turned round. Niobe shot a last look to the three before following. Trinity, however, was still looking at Dreamer. The younger woman took another step toward her.
"I'm sure I can wake him up."
Trinity sighed before turning round and walking back to the lift, where Morpheus and Niobe were waiting for her. The doors closed. Hera, Wolverine and Dreamer sighed together. The dark blue phone rang and Hera picked it up, giving it to Wolverine. The young man took it, put it to his ear and disappeared from the Matrix. Hera caught the phone before it fell on the floor and put it back on the table, waiting for it to ring again.
"Do you think they will come?"
Hera looked up at Dreamer. She didn't answer and gave her the phone as it rang again. Dreamer sighed as she took it and went back to reality. Hera soon followed her.
*~*~*~*
Dreamer was walking among Zion's ruins. She was wearing dark blue jeans with a white shirt with long sleeves. She was almost lost in her thought, waiting for the last of Zion's children. She could almost feel what had happened here. This was how the powers she held in the Matrix was affecting her in the reality. Dreamer had what was called 'psionic powers'. She was a telekinetic and an empath. Ironically, she had none of these powers in the Matrix, only outside of it. And now, she wished that she hadn't had them. For her empathy was telling her, was making her feel, what had happened here. Dreamer knew that this was impossible. Here, she was the only one alive and the dead could feel anymore. But 10 years spent going inside and out of the Matrix had taught her that the mind had his ways. And even if she knew that it was only a trick from her mind, Dreamer still felt the suffering of those who had died here.
Her reverie was interrupted by a ship flying through one of the broken doors of the city. Dreamer walked slowly toward it as it hovered above the floor, ready to go back to wherever it came from at a single sign of danger. The girl stopped some twenty meters away from the ship, her hand clearly visible. After two minutes, the ship finally landed. Dreamer however noted that the motors kept on turning. A door opened and Trinity appeared, waving Dreamer inside. Dreamer walked quickly her way to the older woman. There, she was greeted by the sight of weapons aimed at her.
"Not again!"
Trinity couldn't help but smile a bit as she looked for weapons hidden on the girl.
"Sorry, but we have to be sure."
Dreamer shrugged and smiled to the crew. Finally, Trinity looked at the others and nodded. They lowered their weapons and Trinity waved Dreamer to follow her. She led the girl straight for the cockpit, where Link and Morpheus were waiting for them.
"Hi again Morpheus. Ready for me to take you to Eden?"
The man nodded and Dreamer took her phone out of her pocket and pressed a speed dial button.
"Dreamer?"
"Show yourself and lead us home."
As soon as Dreamer hung up, a ship, twice smaller than Morpheus's one, went flying above Zion's ruins. Morpheus and Link took off and followed the ship.
"Just keep following him. We should be there by tomorrow morning."
"Very well. Trinity, could you show her quarters to Dreamer?"
Trinity nodded and led the girl through the ship. But Dreamer stopped when they went past the infirmary. Trinity looked at her with curiosity, as a smile played on Dreamer's lips.
"He loves you. He loves you very much. He hopes you know it. He's not afraid to die, because he knows that he saved you, back in the Matrix."
This time, Trinity's tears rolled down her cheeks. She went to wipe them out but Dreamer caught her hand.
"'Never be afraid of showing your feelings, for they are what make us so different from the Machines.' This is what I learnt when I was in training. And don't worry. As soon as we arrived in Eden, Angel will put him back on his feet."
Trinity smiled a bit through her tears.
"Who's Angel?"
"The best doctor in the whole Eden. Probably even better that all the doctors in the Matrix. All I'll have to do is telling him how to do it and the next thing you'll know, you will be kissing your dear Neo until your last breath."
Trinity smiled a real smile this time, slightly amused by Dreamer's childish excitement. She showed her 'room'.
"Hope this will make it."
Dreamer cast a glance at the 2 by 3 meters room with a single steel board as bed.
"Perfect."
"My room is just in front, if you need anything. If I'm not there, I will probably be in the infirmary."
Dreamer nodded and looked as Trinity walked slowly her way back to the infirmary.
"Don't worry," the girl murmured softly, "everything will be just fine."
*~*~*~*
Dreamer woke up as her phone was ringing in her room. She fumbled to catch it, in her pocket.
"What?"
"You were still sleeping, weren't you?"
"As a matter of fact, yes. What do you want, Wolverine?"
"I think you should tell them that we're about to arrive. Two minutes." Wolverine added, before Dreamer even asked.
With a sigh, Dreamer hung up and jumped out of bed. Walking outside her quarter, she knocked softly at Trinity's door.
"She's not here."
Dreamer turned round to see Niobe, leaning against the wall.
"Infirmary?"
Niobe nodded.
"We're in approach of Eden. Want to see?"
Niobe nodded again, with a very slight smile, and led the way back to the cockpit. As they walked past the infirmary, Dreamer stopped and walked inside.
"Trinity. I want you to come and see Eden."
With a sigh, Trinity stood up from her spot next to Neo and followed the two other women. Back in the cockpit, Dreamer wasn't very surprised to see Morpheus, piloting the ship. Outside, the tunnel was going slightly upward. A set of big doors were just in front of the two ships. They parted slowly, allowing them to enter the city.
Zion's children gasped as they cast their first glance at Eden. Dreamer smiled as the two ships flew inside the gigantic cave.
"Welcome to our very own paradise."
*~*~*~*
A/N
Well, anyone who wants to know what Eden looks like, you will have to review. I'd like to have 10 reviews, to be sure that people really want me to keep writing this story.
Dear Alina,
I really loved your review and no, you weren't too harsh. Just honest. Please, don't worry. Dreamer is someone far different from Neo and I've got what I hope to be a very good explanation about how she knows all she knows and why she has so much powers.
It is with great pleasure and with great honors that I will accept any critics you could have about this story. And this goes for all my reviewers. (It could give me more ideas ^_^)
And now with the story
*~*~*~*
Chapter 2: To Eden
Trinity was sitting next to Neo. She had not cried for a long time, since that day that she had accepted the red pill in fact. But she could feel her tears, inside her heart. Nothing had changed since that day Neo destroyed the Sentinels. He was in coma, and she was unable to help him.
A hand settled on Trinity's shoulder.
"What do you want, Niobe?"
"I think you would like to know that Dreamer sent us an invitation."
Trinity stood up and, glancing a last time at her love, she followed Niobe. Soon, they were in the meeting room. Morpheus was already there.
"Link found a message inside one of Zion's old mailbox in the Matrix. Dreamer would like us to meet with her and some of her friends. Trinity, do you think we can trust her?"
Trinity took some time to think about that.
"She did help me out. But we know what the Matrix is capable of to oblige us to do what it wants to. Without Neo to tell us if this is a trap or not, I think we should be very careful, even with those saying they are our friends. Particularly with those ones."
Niobe nodded and Morpheus led the way to Link, who was ready to send them in the Matrix, once more.
*~*~*~*
"I'm not sure this is a good idea."
"We went through this, Wolverine. We all agree that Neo is the One. The real One. The One we were waiting for. And now that Zion is no more, Eden will be the next target of the Machines as soon as they will learn where exactly the city is. We need Neo and his team."
Wolverine shook his head, his long blonde hair swaying down his back.
"I'm not arguing with that point, Hera. I say that Dreamer should have stayed in Eden."
"And let you have all the fun? No way in hell. Anyway, they only know me."
Hera smiled as the two younger began another fight. She was very happy to have them both in her team. But sometimes, they acted like children. Their little fight was interrupted by her mobile.
"They are coming." With these three words, the line went dead.
Wolverine and Dreamer stopped their fight at this moment, looking toward the lift. Hera ran a hand through her shoulder-length black hair, hoping that this first meeting would turn out to be a good idea. Eden needed the last of Zion's children. As the lift opened, Dreamer jumped on her feet. Morpheus stepped out of the lift, closely followed by Niobe and Trinity, on each of his sides. All of them were wearing black clothes and glasses. Hera looked at her and her own team. The difference was great, for they were wearing very casual clothes, old jeans with T-shirt.
Morpheus looked at the three people in the room. They seemed as tensed as Morpheus was, except that he didn't show it. Casting a quick glance around, the man saw that he was walking inside what looked like to be a very spacious apartment. It was tastefully decorated and blue was the main color, from the walls to the sofa. A very dark blue phone was in plain sight, on a table just next to the oldest woman.
"Hi there. Hope you didn't have too many difficulties to find the place."
"Your message was very clear, Dreamer, thank you. May I ask why you wanted to see us?"
"We need your help." Hera stood up as she said these words.
"Let me introduce you. This is Hera, the leader of this team. And this big guy is Wolverine."
Nods of acknowledgement were exchanged. Then, Hera talked again.
"You have no reason to trust us. However, with Zion destroyed, you need shelter in the real world. We need soldiers to defend Eden. Who better than Zion's survivors."
"Eden is a myth." Niobe said.
"So was Zion for most of us, before we learnt its destruction."
"How could we trust you?"
"Dreamer saved Trinity."
"The Matrix has sometimes weird ways to destroy us."
"If we wanted you dead, Dreamer would have killed you already. She has some very particular powers over the Matrix. We all have."
Dreamer was looking in Trinity's eyes, and Trinity was staring back. The girl finally took a step forward.
"My name is Selina Carter. I was born some 19 years ago. I live in Eden, the now last human city in the real world. And I think I can wake Neo up from his coma."
Now, Morpheus and Niobe were staring at the girl too. Trinity's face didn't show any of her feelings and her voice was perfectly under control when she spoke.
"What do you know about that?"
"The Matrix has its ways. You must have said something about that in here. The Matrix heard and stored this in its database. We have very good hackers and very good Matrix code readers. Neo fought the Sentinels. The electric bolt needed to court-circuit them was too much for his body. And why do I think that I can wake him? Because something quite similar happen to someone before. And he was brought back among us safely."
No one spoke for some times after that. Finally, Hera cleared her throat.
"We won't tell you where Eden is. Not here anyway. One of our ships we will be waiting for you next to Zion's ruins in one hour. Are you near enough to be there?"
"Yes." Was Morpheus's answer.
"Dreamer will be outside, so you will see that we really are humans. Then, we will guide you to Eden."
Hera held a hand out to Morpheus. With a slight hesitation, the man took it and they shook hands.
"I don't promise anything."
"You don't need to, Morpheus. Just say to Zion's survivors that they are welcome if they want to come in Eden."
Morpheus nodded and turned round. Niobe shot a last look to the three before following. Trinity, however, was still looking at Dreamer. The younger woman took another step toward her.
"I'm sure I can wake him up."
Trinity sighed before turning round and walking back to the lift, where Morpheus and Niobe were waiting for her. The doors closed. Hera, Wolverine and Dreamer sighed together. The dark blue phone rang and Hera picked it up, giving it to Wolverine. The young man took it, put it to his ear and disappeared from the Matrix. Hera caught the phone before it fell on the floor and put it back on the table, waiting for it to ring again.
"Do you think they will come?"
Hera looked up at Dreamer. She didn't answer and gave her the phone as it rang again. Dreamer sighed as she took it and went back to reality. Hera soon followed her.
*~*~*~*
Dreamer was walking among Zion's ruins. She was wearing dark blue jeans with a white shirt with long sleeves. She was almost lost in her thought, waiting for the last of Zion's children. She could almost feel what had happened here. This was how the powers she held in the Matrix was affecting her in the reality. Dreamer had what was called 'psionic powers'. She was a telekinetic and an empath. Ironically, she had none of these powers in the Matrix, only outside of it. And now, she wished that she hadn't had them. For her empathy was telling her, was making her feel, what had happened here. Dreamer knew that this was impossible. Here, she was the only one alive and the dead could feel anymore. But 10 years spent going inside and out of the Matrix had taught her that the mind had his ways. And even if she knew that it was only a trick from her mind, Dreamer still felt the suffering of those who had died here.
Her reverie was interrupted by a ship flying through one of the broken doors of the city. Dreamer walked slowly toward it as it hovered above the floor, ready to go back to wherever it came from at a single sign of danger. The girl stopped some twenty meters away from the ship, her hand clearly visible. After two minutes, the ship finally landed. Dreamer however noted that the motors kept on turning. A door opened and Trinity appeared, waving Dreamer inside. Dreamer walked quickly her way to the older woman. There, she was greeted by the sight of weapons aimed at her.
"Not again!"
Trinity couldn't help but smile a bit as she looked for weapons hidden on the girl.
"Sorry, but we have to be sure."
Dreamer shrugged and smiled to the crew. Finally, Trinity looked at the others and nodded. They lowered their weapons and Trinity waved Dreamer to follow her. She led the girl straight for the cockpit, where Link and Morpheus were waiting for them.
"Hi again Morpheus. Ready for me to take you to Eden?"
The man nodded and Dreamer took her phone out of her pocket and pressed a speed dial button.
"Dreamer?"
"Show yourself and lead us home."
As soon as Dreamer hung up, a ship, twice smaller than Morpheus's one, went flying above Zion's ruins. Morpheus and Link took off and followed the ship.
"Just keep following him. We should be there by tomorrow morning."
"Very well. Trinity, could you show her quarters to Dreamer?"
Trinity nodded and led the girl through the ship. But Dreamer stopped when they went past the infirmary. Trinity looked at her with curiosity, as a smile played on Dreamer's lips.
"He loves you. He loves you very much. He hopes you know it. He's not afraid to die, because he knows that he saved you, back in the Matrix."
This time, Trinity's tears rolled down her cheeks. She went to wipe them out but Dreamer caught her hand.
"'Never be afraid of showing your feelings, for they are what make us so different from the Machines.' This is what I learnt when I was in training. And don't worry. As soon as we arrived in Eden, Angel will put him back on his feet."
Trinity smiled a bit through her tears.
"Who's Angel?"
"The best doctor in the whole Eden. Probably even better that all the doctors in the Matrix. All I'll have to do is telling him how to do it and the next thing you'll know, you will be kissing your dear Neo until your last breath."
Trinity smiled a real smile this time, slightly amused by Dreamer's childish excitement. She showed her 'room'.
"Hope this will make it."
Dreamer cast a glance at the 2 by 3 meters room with a single steel board as bed.
"Perfect."
"My room is just in front, if you need anything. If I'm not there, I will probably be in the infirmary."
Dreamer nodded and looked as Trinity walked slowly her way back to the infirmary.
"Don't worry," the girl murmured softly, "everything will be just fine."
*~*~*~*
Dreamer woke up as her phone was ringing in her room. She fumbled to catch it, in her pocket.
"What?"
"You were still sleeping, weren't you?"
"As a matter of fact, yes. What do you want, Wolverine?"
"I think you should tell them that we're about to arrive. Two minutes." Wolverine added, before Dreamer even asked.
With a sigh, Dreamer hung up and jumped out of bed. Walking outside her quarter, she knocked softly at Trinity's door.
"She's not here."
Dreamer turned round to see Niobe, leaning against the wall.
"Infirmary?"
Niobe nodded.
"We're in approach of Eden. Want to see?"
Niobe nodded again, with a very slight smile, and led the way back to the cockpit. As they walked past the infirmary, Dreamer stopped and walked inside.
"Trinity. I want you to come and see Eden."
With a sigh, Trinity stood up from her spot next to Neo and followed the two other women. Back in the cockpit, Dreamer wasn't very surprised to see Morpheus, piloting the ship. Outside, the tunnel was going slightly upward. A set of big doors were just in front of the two ships. They parted slowly, allowing them to enter the city.
Zion's children gasped as they cast their first glance at Eden. Dreamer smiled as the two ships flew inside the gigantic cave.
"Welcome to our very own paradise."
*~*~*~*
A/N
Well, anyone who wants to know what Eden looks like, you will have to review. I'd like to have 10 reviews, to be sure that people really want me to keep writing this story.