***NOT NEO***
Office Building.
Neo and Morpheus were fighting the swarms of Agent Smith in the otherwise empty and seemingly endless hallway. The Keymaker was behind them, looking rather worried. Morpheus' phone goes off.
Morpheus dodges a punch from a Smith and flicks his phone open. "You need to get out of there quickly, the security wasn't shut down!" Said Link, panicked. Morpheus swore under his breath. If the security wasn't shut down the building was going to explode very soon, and as they didn't know where the nearest exit was, it wasn't good news
"Neo!" Morpheus yelled as Neo turned to look at him in confusion. Suddenly sirens went off, the fighting paused for a second as the Agent Smiths looked up and smiled, this may give him the advantage. The Keymaker however, quickly ran to a nearby door, shoved a key in, and ran through.
" Follow me." he commanded
Morpheus ran through, although Neo stopped and punched a smug Agent Smith in the face before he followed him and locked the door.
"What the hell is going on Morpheus?" Neo questioned, they had just been within reaching distance of the mainframe, what had happened?
"Somehow the security for the building wasn't shut down, we need to find a phone quickly." Said Morpheus, attempting to follow the scurrying Keymaker.
The Keymaker opened another door and led them through, in to a room with an old dial phone on a wooden coffee table in the centre of the room.
Morpheus picked up the phone as it started to ring.
Suddenly Neo stopped him "What about the Keymaker?" He said concerned
They both turn to him, a little worried. The Keymaker was a program wasn't he? Programs couldn't exist in the real world, but they couldn't very well leave him here.
The Keymaker just smiled, "It is alright." he said taking the phone and disappearing
Morpheus and Neos eyes widened
"How..?" Morpheus spluttered
"Cool!" said Neo, with a grin, ignoring a look from Morpheus.
On the Neb.
The Keymaker materialised in the middle of the room.
"Whoa!" Link yelled, practically falling off his chair in shock, how on earth had the little guy done that?
Office Building
"You first Morpheus." said Neo, handing him the phone
Morpheus contemplated arguing, but thought better of it, picked up the phone and disappeared. Neo replaced it, but as he was about to lift it up again, a hand firmly stopped him.
"Mister Anderson, leaving so soon?" a familiar voice drawled
Neo grimaced. "Smith"
Neo got ready to fight, but suddenly Agent Smith plunged his hands into him, causing him to wince.
Neo stared at the black shimmering liquid slowly spreading icy tendrils across his body, he tried to block out the pain and focused, closing his eyes, sending the oily black liquid back towards Smith.
"Why are you even trying? You know you can't make me a replica." Neo said.
Agent Smith just smiled. "I guessed that I just needed a little extra help."
Suddenly, many hands pushed into Neo's back, He turned to see hundreds of Agent Smiths swarming into the room, Neo looks vaguely surprised. He tried to push the black liquid away, but his eyes widen in fear and shock as he sees that this time it keeps spreading. How can Smith be doing this?
On the Neb
In his loading chair, Neo's body is shaking violently.
Trinity is sat beside Neo and looks frightened "What's going on?" she demanded
Link stared at the screen and saw green numbers rushing past at an amazing speed.
"Oh crap, he's being swarmed by the Agent Smiths!"
Trinity too Neo's hand
"Come on Neo!" Trinity whispers. He was fine before, he will be fine now. He's the One he can handle himself. Trinity thinks, trying to convince herself that Neo will be ok.
Office Building
Neo is now nearly completely covered in the black liquid, and is franticly trying to fight off the replicas, as well as mentally push the black liquid back.
"How can you..?" For the first time Neo actually sounds frightened, he has seen Smith turn another Agent into a replica by doing this, it couldn't happen to him now, he stopped it before.
The original Agent Smith laughed "I told you before Mr Anderson, that it is inevitable"
Neo realised that he couldn't stop the black liquid covering him. He was going to lose. He managed to whisper "I love you Trinity" before throwing back his head in a silent scream, and being totally engulfed in the black liquid.
On the Neb
Morpheus is staring worried; at the heart monitor
suddenly he jumps up "He's going into arrest!"
Trinity is still holding Neo's hand tightly, and is now close to tears.
"Please, Neo, pull through this. You have to." She whispered softly, she doesn't know what she would do if she lost Neo now, she had always known there was a risk when he entered the Matrix, but she had always though she would be there with him, that she could at least try to *do* something to try and stop it.
The line on the heart monitor goes flat.
Office Building
"I often wondered how it would feel to be 'The One'" says Agent Smith, with a hint of a smile.
Opposite him, where Neo was stood, another Agent Smith replies, looking down at himself. He picks up the phone.
"It feels...good."
