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The Guidance of the Oracle

Morpheus led his crew to the Oracle's apartment.

"You'll hold Apoc in your arms, just before he and you go," the Oracle told her. Confusion flashed across Switch's face.

"But don't worry about it. After you leave, you'll feel better about the entire situation."

The Oracle smiled.

"Thanks, I think." Switch thought for a bit, feeling better after she left the apartment.

She forgot about the Oracle's words as time passed. But Switch remembered them as she held Apoc in her arms when Cypher betrayed them all.

The Oracle was right, she thought, just before she was unplugged.


"Tomorrow you die."

The Oracle gave Mouse a cookie after the horrifying prediction put him into shock.

He waited for his end the next day, and the next. Yet his fortune did not come true. He was relieved for awhile.

Yet Mouse stood with his back to the brick-walled window, machine guns in his shaking hands. The bullets pierced his chest, pierced his torso, pierced his arms. He couldn't even let out a scream. Everything slowly went quiet in his head.

The Oracle is always right. Damned fate. Damn my belief that I would live long.

His last thoughts led to pure pain.

It's always me.


"She's ready to see you."

Here I go, Cypher thought. He entered the kitchen and found the Oracle smoking a cigarette.

"Care to join me?" she asked. "Or are you dreading what I'm going to tell you?"

Worry and anxiousness grew in his stomach.

"What is my fate?" he asked.

"You are destined to fall," the Oracle replied. "Cookie?"

I fell in love with Trinity, but what else is she saying? Cypher thought.

"Time's up, honey. Don't worry about what I told you; just do what you do best." She smiled and led him out.


It's always the way it's been. I sentence people to death whenever they are taken to me, whether they are or aren't ready. I am Life, yet I am Death.

If the One can save the human race, then maybe, just maybe . . . I won't have to sentence everyone to death.