The Neb



Smith strode purposefully out of the computer room, and smiled at the memory of the look on Andersons face. Humans had got one thing right; revenge was sweet.

Smith slipped into Trinity's cabin, and looked down on her quietly sleeping form. Her brow was creased in a frown, and her eyes were screwed up in concentration, it looked as though she was having a bad dream.

Smith toyed with the gun, it would be very easy to kill her now, it would a couple of minutes for the rest of the crew to wake up, if they even heard the disturbance, and he could systematically wipe out the whole crew in under an hour.

But if the crew was asleep, and Anderson didn't see it happen, it would be deifying his whole purpose here.

Trinity started to toss and turn in her sheets, thrashing her arms recklessly. He put the gun in his pocket; he would wait until the right moment. She was muttering and waving her arms, as if to push something away. "No... don't..No..Please..You can't!...you wouldn't..." Smith sat down on the edge of the bed. He wasn't sure what to do when humans had unpleasant dreams; apparently they compared dreams to being in the Matrix. "No...Please..I don't want to die!" she pleaded. Smith smiled. Maybe she was dreaming about him.

Suddenly Trinity sat up, causing 'Neo' to jump back in shock. She stared around wildly 'Neo' lent forward and put a hand on her shoulder to try and calm her, but she flinched at his touch. She turned to his face, and her eyes widened in fear. "Get away, it's not you, you wouldn't, you'd never!! I know who you are!!" she yelled at 'Neo' blindly. he quickly reached towards the gun.

Trinity stopped shouting and flailing her arms. "Neo?" she whispered "Oh, Neo it's you! I'm sorry, I..I..was just, I was dreaming, and....and, I can't quite remember what happened but.." "Shhh, It was only a dream, it wasn't real." he said in an attempt at sympathy. Trinity lent against him, but frowned as she felt him go ridged against her.

For some reason Smith felt his heart start pounding. It was certainly an odd experience, he had been seconds away from killing her, but now she was helpless, weakly clinging to him because of the effects of a few nocturnal images. He felt strangely compelled to actually protect her. He slowly relaxed his body and let Trinity slip her arms around him. Why did he feel like this? Did Anderson love Trinity so much that even when he wasn't in control of his body, it still found a way to care for her?

Smith didn't like it. He didn't like feeling what Anderson felt, he had already become too tainted by human emotions to end up feeling something as pointless and dangerous as love.

Trinity started to slid her hands under his sweater, but Neo stopped her, "No, we..we should really try to get some sleep" he said, voice husky, and rose up from Trinity's bed.

Trinity cast her eyes downwards, trying to hide the hurt they would blatantly reveal. "Yes, I suppose your right." she muttered "Good night"



The Source



Neo had been sat on the floor, staring in turn at his watch and the empty computer room on the screen. He had tried to open the code again, and again, but after the last futile attempt he had rested his head against his knees and closed his eyes in fatigue and despair.

"Trinity?"

Trinity was smiling softly at him, dressed in a long silk white dress, instead of her usual Matrix outfit, in contrast to the darkness of the room. "Hey, baby, you didn't think that we wouldn't notice would you? we came as soon as we could." She called to him. Neo ran up and grasped her tightly. "Trinity how did you find me? how did you..??" he whispered through tears.

"Hey" she said gently, wiping away his tears, "don't get so upset" "Trinity, you don't understand, I thought I would never see you again!" he gasped. She had come back, she had known what had happened and had found him. He rested his head against hers, and felt her heart beating in unison with his own.

Suddenly she pushed him away, "No...don't..no..please..you can't!...you wouldn't..." she yelled furiously. "What?" said Neo, confused "Trinity, what do you mean?" "No...please..I don't want to die!" she pleaded. "Trinity, why do you...?" Neo paused as he looked down at himself. He was wearing the typical Agent suit, and was holding a gun. How did that happen? When did he get the gun? and why was he dressed as an Agent?

"Trinity, I...I..don't know how...I....I'm not going to hurt you! Trinity!" He yelled franticly, but Trinity had started to run away from him. Neo ran after her, and she tripped and fell. "Trinity.." Neo pleaded reaching towards her, but she scrambled away, and glared up at him. "Get away, it's not you, you wouldn't, you'd never!! I know who you are!!" she screamed "What..Trinity, it's me, Neo! what do you..."

Trinity pushed up to her feet and looked at him in disgust "Don't say his name. I know who you are.....Smith."

"NO!" Yelled Neo "No, I'm not! I'm....." There was a bang, and Neo looked down from the blood soaked bullet wound in Trinity's chest, to the smoke rising from the gun in his hand.

"No.....I......I...." he whispered in disbelief. There was a dull thud as Trinity's body fell to the ground. "No..I..I didn't mean to.."

"Mr Anderson."

***

"Mr Anderson!" said a voice impatiently

Neo flailed his arms franticly at Agent Brown "No! No!..i didn't mean..." He opened his eyes and looked at Brown with utter bewilderment. "What?..what..was i?..was it a dream?"

Brown stared at Neo slightly confused. "I am not sure, you were yelling and moving about a lot. Do humans normally do that in sleep?"

"Sleep?" said Neo "I was asleep!" Neo gaped at his watch; '00:35' He had been asleep for almost 2 hours. How could he have let that happen? He had less than an hour left. The whole crew could be dead!

Neo practically threw Brown out of the way, and stared at the screen. Link and Morpheus were in the computer room. Alive.

But where was Trinity? The dream had seen so real, from her warm touch to the look of shock on her face as she had died. The door to the room was awkwardly pushed open by Trinity carrying some large cables. Neo sighed and put his head in his hands. Brown looked at him with what appeared to be concern.

"WHY did you let me fall asleep? Smith could of shot them and I wouldn't have had a clue!" Neo shouted accusingly at Agent Brown.

Browns look of concern, immediately vanished. He glared at Neo for a second and sighed. "I was watching the screen. You had fallen asleep, but I didn't wake you as nothing important had happened, and I thought you might have a better chance of getting out of here if you had had a rest." Neo looked slightly shocked. "I would have woken you if anything had happened" Brown added quietly.

Maybe the Agents were more human than Neo had thought, he was sure that was sorrow he had detected in Browns voice. "Um, sorry. Thanks" Said Neo awkwardly.

"It's..." Brown began, but stopped.

'Neo' had just strode into the computer room on the screen with the Keymaker.



The Neb



"They will know you are not the one" the Keymaker muttered to 'Neo'

"Hmm, well that's a bit late now I think" 'Neo' replied smugly.

The crew turned around as 'Neo' walked in.

"Did you sleep ok Neo?" Questioned Link

"Yeah, great. Trinity, Morpheus?" He began

they both turned around,. "What is it Neo?" said Trinity warily.

"Well if something was to happen to the Keymaker, would we have any other way of entering the Source?" He said lightly.

"No.." said Morpheus slowly "why do you.."

'Neo' whipped out his gun and shot the Keymaker before he had a chance to blink. As his body fell to the floor 'Neo' smiled "Just checking"