The Neb



Trinity watched Neo leave with concern, he had been acting so.... off, lately. At first she had assumed that it was because of what had happened at the Source. He was about to fulfil his destiny, only to be pulled back from it last minute, and nearly die. She had thought he had been so quiet because he had been planning with Morpheus and the Keymaker, on when to try to go back in, but Morpheus had asked her if she had noticed that he was acting oddly as well.

If that wasn't why Neo was acting strangely then what could it be? Was it her? First he had pleaded with her not to enter the Matrix, and hadn't told her why. And now that he was back, after their brief kisses when he first came out, he hadn't so much as touched her, and she would even go as far to say as he was avoiding her. Maybe that was what it was. Maybe he was trying to let her down gently, and was nervous. Sure, the Oracle had said that she would fall in love with the One, but she had never mentioned that the One would love her.

No, Neo loved her, she was sure of it. But then *was* was the operative word. Maybe he had lost interest in her, he knew he could have almost any girl in Zion, so why would he choose her? Trinity was surprised to find her eyes filling up. How could she get so worked up over all of this? Neo acts the slightest bit out of character, and she thinks its because he's off to womanise in Zion? She could be so stupid at times, it was probably nothing.



The Source



Agent Brown looked over to Neo. As soon as he had told the Anomaly how long he had left before he was reprogrammed, he had become silent, and just kept staring blankly into space. Agent Brown experienced an emotion he had never had before, one he couldn't place. Was it pity?

Neo had been trying to think of something he could do, someway to get back to his body, or at least warn the crew about what had happened, but he was stuck here, and time kept slipping away.

His mind strayed to Trinity, of all the people in the real world, Trinity knew him best, or so he thought. He missed her so much, and he had only been gone for less than two hours, he loved her. Neo thought she had loved *him* too, but then how could she not know the difference between him and Smith, they had *nothing* in common!

For a start, Smith was a program; he seemed to show almost no emotion apart from his anger towards his enemies, in particular himself. Smith also had the ability to do things that no human could do, he never was willing to give up, and didn't seem to be able to die. Neo paused; maybe he was more like Smith than he was willing to admit.

Even so, Neo knew Trinity loved him, he could see it every time they looked into each others eyes. If she didn't know him as well as he had thought, then it wasn't her fault, it was his for being so distant, he would find a way back to her; he wouldn't give up that easily.

Agent Brown felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned around to see a resolute Mr Anderson, "If you can figured out Smith managed to hack into the source to put us here, then surely you can find a way for us to hack back out."

Agent Brown frowned, he didn't like the sound of this.



The Neb- the computer room



Agent Smith smiled smugly to himself while setting up computer equipment. The crew had goon to sleep, and so far everything was going according to plan none of them suspected anything in the slightest, not one of them could tell the difference between Anderson and himself.

Smith stopped typing. They couldn't tell the difference between the infuriating Anderson, and Him? Smith? Smith wasn't sure that he liked that at all. He was nothing like Anderson in the slightest. They probably just couldn't tell the difference between Anderson and himself because he had done such a good job in eluding their underdeveloped minds. That was it. Smith and Anderson had *nothing* in common.

Smith rammed a cable into the computer with a little more force than necessary.



The Source



Agent Brown was avoiding Neo's gaze. "There *is* a way out isn't there!" said Neo triumphantly Agent Brown looked uncomfortable, "I am not permitted to answer that"

Neo grinned "I *knew* it." Suddenly his grin vanished, if there is a way out of here, then why hadn't the Agent used it?

"How can I get out of here?" Neo questioned again

Brown clenched his teeth. "Mr Anderson, even if I was to tell you the way out of here, which I repeat, that I will not. The chances of you being able to do it are very slim, even for someone of your particular talent. If an Agent cannot hack out of the source, then I severely doubt a rebel could."

Neo narrowed his eyes. It looked like he may have to get Agent Brown to make a *compromise*