With a swift kick of her foot, Trinity kicked the beautiful frosted glass door, shattering it into a million pieces. She then kicked the wooden door open and jolted in while pointing her gun in every direction. There was nothing. She went in a little farther while the rest of us slowly followed. The house looked small until we continued to walk on. The small hallway we were walking down led into an impressive foyer that had a winding staircase spiraling upwards. Spears, shields, and marble and stone statues lined the walls around it. It wasn't the chateau, but the Merovingian had tried his best to make the place look like his home.

"Where is everyone?" One softly whispered. Even his low whisper seemed to echo off the foyer walls.

"No idea, but I don't like the looks of it." Trinity whispered back.

"Should we split up?" whispered Ghost.

"No, we stay together. I don't want someone to disappear." Trinity quickly jerked her gun to the right as if she had heard something. She did hear something. One of the doors off to the side was slowly opening up, then an arm was visible and soon a body. Trinity shot a couple of times—splintering the wooden door and making whoever it was go back into the room.

"Show yourself!" Trinity shouted. Slowly the being came out into the open. It was a man wearing black clothes and sunglasses. He placed his hands over his head and slowly walked our way. Trinity and Smith grabbed onto him and forced him down on his knees.

"Where's the Merovingian?" Smith demanded. The guy didn't answer, but instead said something in French. Smith raised his gun and shot the guy in the back, causing him to fall forward onto the floor.

"Why did you do that?" Trinity looked at Smith in shock.

"He wasn't going to talk and we don't need someone to look after." Smith coldly answered while walking back to the rest of us. It took Trinity a few minutes to get over what had just happened, but she finally walked over to us.

"I'm sure that all the shooting has gotten someone's attention by now. Everyone keep quiet and search this place quickly before others arrive." With Trinity's orders, our group started forward, keeping our guns poised for any other intruders.

"I want to leave." Two's sniveling was suddenly heard behind us.

"Shut up!" One snapped.

"I don't like being here. Wonder if the Mero beats us again?"

"Quiet! Before you get us all killed and deleted!" One's voice rose a little before going back to an angry whisper.

"Knock it off back there." Trinity threw a threatening glance over her shoulder at the Twins.

"What's wrong with you lately?" One firmly grabbed onto his brother's arm. "Earlier you were so bent on getting revenge on the Mero, now you want to turn tail and run."

Two lowered his head and stared at his gun. As the rest of the group spread out and looked around the foyer, I inched my way to Two's side.

"You said you were going to cover me if I needed it," I smiled. "I hope you aren't going to disappoint me."

Two looked up from staring at his gun and smiled a rather sheepish smile.

"I won't," he answered as he puffed up with pride. "Who's scared of the Mero? Not me. I could beat him with my eyes closed."

I shook my head and laughed a little at Two's sudden change. It was typical of a male to show off and brag about his bravery around a female.

"Don't forget what you are." I whispered.

"That's right! I'm a rogue program—a ghost, an assassin." Two's sheepish smile turned devilish as he got his sense back. He phased and reappeared in front of me.

"C'mon let's go," Two grabbed onto my arm and pulled me along toward the others on the other side of the room. "Let's hurry and find the Mero. I'm itching to knock him around a bit like he did us." Two grinned.

One slowly turned his head and faced Two. "Boy, you've changed suddenly." he whispered.

As Trinity led us into an open room, that turned out to be a study, the Twins continued to talk and whisper behind us, at times getting a little too loud.

"No one in here," Ghost said after looking the study room over. The walls were filled with books, and in the middle of the room were a desk and several chairs—behind it stood a huge window.

With a sigh, Trinity walked over to the desk, pulled off a couple pieces of Scotch tape from the dispenser setting next to the phone, and walked over to the Twins. Both Twins walked backwards and up against the wall as Trinity got up into both of their faces.

"You've tried my patience for the last time," she sternly whispered as she placed a piece of tape over each twin's mouth. "Now don't you dare take that off until you can keep your mouths shut!"

Trinity walked back toward the desk while shaking her head in frustration.

Hiding a laugh, I walked up to the two twins. When Trinity wasn't looking, I silently and carefully pulled the piece of tape off Two's mouth before doing the same to One. Making a silent gesture by putting my finger to my lips, I backed away from the two and stood while the rest of the group turned the room over looking for anything suspicious. I found out that the Twins kept rather quiet when I was near them. So for the rest of the search through the study room, I tried my best to stay with the two to keep them quiet.

"Find anything?" Niobe broke the long silence as everyone came together in the middle of the room.

"Nope. No sign of a program or the least little hint of one." Ghost whispered.

"Well, well. Uninvited guests I presume?" The French sounding voice made each one of us turn toward the study room door. It was the Merovingian with several of his henchmen standing behind him—complete with wicked looking guns. Persephone was standing in the midst of them. I turned my eyes to the Twins as they walked over beside me.

"I see that you two have recovered well," The Mero turned to the Twins. "And it looks like you didn't waste time in telling everyone about my plans."

Both Twins looked at the floor and shuffled their feet around.

"No matter, I'll deal with you later." The Mero sighed and turned to Smith. The Twins slowly turned and looked at me. Two's hand grasped my arm.

"Why haven't you disposed of these like I ordered you to do?" Merovingian angrily shouted at Smith.

"I was going to, but they turned me good and…"

"Silence!" Mero looked sternly at everybody. "You two," He motioned toward the Twins. They immediately perked their heads up. "I want you to go downstairs. I have some unfinished business to take care of with the both of you. To make sure you obey, Persephone here will personally escort you."

The Twins looked at me in silent plea then started toward the direction the Mero was standing. Both slowly and cautiously walked past their angry master while cutting their eyes at him from behind their dark shades. Losing his patience, the Merovingian stomped his foot on the ground inches away from Two's heels, making the poor twins jump and hurry forward into the grasp of Persephone who took their guns away and led them to a door beside the study.

"Worthless virii," Merovingian grumbled half in French and half in English as he turned back to us. I didn't care what happened to me, all I wanted was my two friends back. Taking one of the handguns hidden under my coat, I whipped it out and pointed it at the Mero.

"You harm those twins, and you can kiss your life good bye right here and now." I angrily said. The Mero silently stood there, unamused by my sudden threat. Suddenly there was a clicking sound all over the room as the rest of the group pulled out their guns and pointed them toward the Mero.

"You heard what she said. Let the Twins go." Trinity coolly said, while pushing her gun closer to the Mero's head. The Merovingian continued to remain silent, and then an evil grin formed on his face, which was followed by an even evil laugh.

"Take them." he ordered to the ones standing behind him. What happened next is hard to even put into words because it was like chaos had broken out all over the place. Guns went off, bullets flew, people ducked behind furniture, and creatures and men like I'd never seen came at us. Through the entire bustle, we somehow made it out into the foyer where the war between the Merovingian's henchmen and us continued. I watched as Trinity ran in slow motion up the side of one of the foyer walls, turned a flip in mid air, and came down on one of the black dressed guys. Ghost and Niobe were busy fighting hand to hand with several guys over in another part of the place. Smith had taken off after the Merovingian in one of the other rooms when everything started. As I watched everything, I felt someone suddenly grab hold of my neck. I couldn't see who it was but their grip was choking the life out of me. I struggled to make them let go, but it was no use. Just before I felt like I was going to pass out, I saw the Twins come up out of the floor in front of me and grab onto the one choking me. The grip loosened and I fell to the floor while coughing and gasping for air. I turned to see the Twins violently kicking and using their martial arts on the one who had grabbed onto me. The guy fought back, or at least he tried to. The Twins phased and reappeared every time the guy took a swing at them. When the henchman was presumed gone, the Twins came up to me and helped me up.

"You ok, Angel?" Two asked in a concerned tone.

"Yes, I'm fine. Thank you." I reached and rubbed my neck to take away the grasping feeling it still had.

During that moment, I didn't know what had happened but as I kept my eyes on Two I saw him suddenly fall to the ground. One scrambled to catch his falling brother and looked at me in shock. Looking closer, I saw blood seeping from Two's white vest.

"Two!!" I screamed as I quickly knelt at his side. Two was trying to say something, but I couldn't hear what it was because of the fighting and shooting going on behind us.

"Phase, brother! Phase!" One shouted in Two's ear. Immediately Two phased and reappeared healed and struggled to get up.

"Two," I shouted while throwing my arms around his neck. "I thought I'd lost you there for a second." I whispered so only he could hear. Turning back around, I looked over the room for whoever had shot Two.

"He's up there!" One pointed to the stairs. Whipping my gun around I shot at the ugly henchman that stood watching us from above.

"I think I missed him."

"No you didn't." Two said as he jerked me out of the way of the falling vampire or werewolf, whichever one he was.

At that moment our attention was drawn to some kind of commotion in the middle of the foyer. We turned and saw Neo come crashing through the stained glass window located in the ceiling above the foyer and land in the middle of the brawl going on in the center of the room. Several of the rough looking henchmen around the room started firing their machine guns at him, but the bullets all stopped in mid air before they even reached Neo. Morpheus soon got into the action, sneaking up behind the unaware henchmen, who were preoccupied with Neo, and slugging them with the end of his gun. One by one they dropped lifelessly to the floor, unconscious for the time being.

"Where's the Merovingian?" Morpheus shouted across the room to Trinity.

"I don't know! Smith chased him into another part of the house when everything started. I haven't seen either one since." Trinity shouted back before shooting another henchman coming down the spiral stairs. The Twins and I ducked back a little ways to get out of the way of the falling man who landed next to the one I had taken care of. By this time the fight had nearly come to an end. Everyone met in the middle, careful not to step on the sprawled bodies of the henchmen.

"Now what?" Ghost asked while throwing down a spear he had been fighting with. Everyone was breathing hard.

"We find the Merovingian and his program and put and end to all of this," Morpheus clicked his gun then ran over and started bursting open the doors to all the other rooms. "Which room did Smith and the Mero go into?"

"I don't know, but I think it was that one over there." Trinity pointed toward a door to the left of the study room. Morpheus burst through it only to find that it opened to a flight of stairs that led downwards.

"Come on!"

Everyone but the Twins and I ran after Morpheus. Now I wish I had gone with them. The Twins turned and looked at me after the foyer got quiet.

"I'm so glad you two are okay," I whispered, dropping the gun I held in order to place my arms around the Twins. "What did you do with Persephone?"

"We left her,"

"Downstairs." The two smiled.

"I think she's tied up and locked away for awhile." One grinned evilly.

"You didn't hurt her did you?" I pulled away from the two.

"No." both said together.

The three of us were startled by another voice. Turning, we were surprised to see the Oracle standing in the doorway leading to the front door. A man stood behind her.

"This thing's about over with," she smiled while taking a silver colored laptop from the man's hand and opening it up. The Twins and I exchanged glances then turned back to the Oracle.

"Come with me. I think it's about time you knew the truth." the Oracle said as she took my arm and led me into the study room where she placed the laptop onto the desk. The Twins came up behind me. The Oracle took out a CD and placed it into the computer.

"We'll wait for the others first." was all she said before seating herself in the chair behind the desk. The man who had come with her walked over and stood beside her. He positioned the laptop so that it faced the Oracle.

"Thank you, Seraph." she said as she smiled at him.

Not long after, loud noises were heard out in the foyer and Neo, Trinity, Smith, and the rest came bursting into the study while carrying the Merovingian (who was loudly cursing in French) by the arms. The Twins smiled at each other evilly then walked over to the Mero. One grabbed the Mero by his hair and yanked his head back.

"Think you're so tough now?" One sneered.

"I think he needs to be taught a lesson." Two snickered as he flipped open his razor and held it about an inch from the Mero's face while turning it over and over in his hand, the light from the window reflecting off it. The Merovingian swallowed while his eyes followed the razor's blade down the side of his face and around his nose. Niobe, Ghost, and Morpheus threw a worried glance at the Oracle. She held her hand up for them not to do anything and continued to watch the Twins.

"You know,"

"—the night you beat us and threw us out,"

"We couldn't defend ourselves, but now we're more powerful than ever,"

"—and we're mighty angry at the way you treated us."

"Especially after we've been loyal to you for so long," One frowned.

"You can't treat us like that and get away with it." Two punched the Merovingian hard in the stomach, nearly knocking the breath out of him.

"Boy, that felt good," Two smiled at his brother. One let go of the Mero's hair and gave him a good swift kick in the shin with the thick heel of his boot. The Merovingian was in pain, I could tell, but he tried hard to hide it.

"I knew these thick heeled boots would come in handy someday." One grinned from ear to ear. Smiling, Two tightened his grip on his razor and prepared to cut the Merovingian's hand, but the Oracle stopped him.

"Uh-uh, Two, that's quite enough. You've had your fun. There's no sense in taking it too far."

Two slowly let go of the Merovingian's hand and looked down in disappointment before angrily stomping the Mero's foot. This time the Merovingian forgot who he was and yelled in pain before breaking into more French cursing, all of which I wouldn't dare repeat even if I could understand and speak French.

"How dare you let these virii treat me in this manner!" the Mero shouted to the Oracle before turning a stern face to Two then to One. The Twins crossed their arms over their chests and glared at their once powerful master.

"How dare we treat you in this manner?" One repeated in utter shock.

"Think of how you treated us!" Two got down into the Mero's face. For awhile, Two and the Mero glared at each other then the Mero said something to Two in French.

"The same to you," Two huffed madly before taking his face away from the Mero's. The Oracle rolled her eyes at the whole argument then threw a sighing glance at Seraph.

"Getting back to where we left off, did you find what the Merovingian had?" she asked, breaking the tension she knew was forming.

"Yes, here it is." Neo let go of the Merovingian's arm he held and walked toward the desk, handing the Oracle a CD.

"You had a very good plan. Too bad you won't get to use it," the Oracle said to the Mero. The Mero only grumbled in French.

"Can we beat him around some more? Please?" Two ran to the desk, accidentally hitting several items and sending them flying. "I want to use my razor on him. I want him to feel pain!"

"Two," The Oracle's eyes got big as she glared at the twin while trying to catch what he had hit, "that's quite enough! Now get back over there and behave yourself." the woman sternly yet softly said. Two lowered his head and walked over to where One and I were standing. Seraph walked around the desk and picked up the things that the Oracle had failed to catch and set them back where they belonged. Niobe picked up a pencil that had rolled over beside her foot and handed it to the man.

"Do we have or at least know where all of the Merovingian's henchmen are?" the Oracle sighed.

"As far as we know, yes," Neo answered.

"Where's Persephone?"

Everyone but the Twins exchanged glances.

"Uh, she's downstairs locked in one of the cells." One answered in a low voice.

The Merovingian turned a shocked and surprised look toward the Twins.

"You locked my wife up in one of the cells?!" he gasped in a dry voice. The Twins only grinned.

"Smith, go get Persephone and bring her up here." the Oracle commanded. Smith did as he was told and disappeared out of the room. Trinity dragged the Mero over to a chair and threw him into it.

"Now sit there." Trinity took out her gun and kept it pointed at the man.

A little while after, Smith returned with a struggling and fighting Persephone, her hands tied with a rope. Smith took her and sat her down in a chair next to her husband and held a gun on her as Trinity was doing to the Mero.

"Now that everyone's here I think we can get down to serious business." said the Oracle, placing her hands onto the desk and leaning forward.