SUIT RESURRECTED ITSELF

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SOME TIME AROUND 2199

2:29 PM

Just reached subway station. Finally, I get some rest. When I get back to the Neb I'm going to have a big hot mug of Dozer's drink. And a long sleep.

Got Morpheus to go first. I ain't rescuing you again, man.

2:30 PM

Trinity's turn for the phone, but it's ringing and she isn't picking it up. I'm starting to get edgy now. The sooner we get to a relatively safe place the better.

2:31 PM

What is she babbling on about? I'd be happy to listen fully and understandingly in the real world but right here we could be jumped on by suits.

2:32 PM

Oh, shit, shit and double shit. Suit coming out of the shadows. Trinity FINALLY picking up the damn phone, leaving me all alone.

It's the one that interrogated me, oh, so long ago now.

2:33 PM

Ominously walking towards me. I should run. I should run now, while I have the chance, but my legs won't move.

2:34 PM

Oh dear. Looks like I'm going to have to fight him. Seems too late to run now.

Standing facing him. All is quiet.

2:35 PM

Shooting at each other now. I'm scared. Really, really scared. Why did I get into this? Everyone who has fought a suit has died. Why should I be any different? I'm not the One.

Still, I seem to be doing OK. He'll surely kill me, but I think I'm putting up a better fight than most others did.

2:36 PM

I'm out of ammo. Fuck. If I'd just picked out one more gun from that shelf I'd be OK now. There were thousands there, for god sake!

2:37 PM

So we're both out of bullets. So now we revert to good old fashioned Kung Fu. I'm OK at that. I think. I only ever really fought Morpheus properly.

2:38 PM

Suit is good at Kung Fu. Painfully good. Is slamming me against walls and kicking my brains out.

I can taste the blood.

2:39 PM

On train track. Train coming in. Being held down by suit. Suit also knows I am going to die. Am going to die.

Unless...

2:40 PM

Told that suit what my name was, then used up last of strength slamming suit against roof. Got off the train track and suit was squashed like a little beetle! Hahah!

I feel so tired and aching and I want to just go to sleep. Right here, if possible.

2:41 PM

Oh, shit, the suit resurrected itself! Stepped out of the train, good as new!

This time, I will run. One more fight with that thing and I KNOW I'll die. I'm just too tired.

2:42 PM

Just have to keep going. Keep going, keep going. Don't know where I'm headed yet, but I have to keep running.

Need a phone.

2:43 PM

Grabbed a phone off some guy in the street. Finally, I have somewhere to run to.

Wabash and Lake?? Where the hell is that... oh, wait, thank god for those into-the-mind things!

2:44 PM

In marketplace, being chased by suit. Not the one I just fought, another one. Suit wreaking havoc in order to get me, shooting watermelons and suchlike.

2:46 PM

Damn. Backed into a corner.... oh, wait, there's a door. Wonder why I didn't notice it before.

2:47 PM

Still running. Am exhausted. If I could I would lie down and die right now, but I can't let those suits get me. Otherwise they'd probably kill me slowly and painfully, which would not be good.

And I have to see Trinity again.

2:48 PM

Ran into old woman's apartment. Into kitchen and old woman there suddenly turned into suit I fought and threw a knife at me. Jesus, what is the point of running and gaining a few feet on them when whenever I pass someone they are instantly on my tail again!

2:49 PM

Down the steps, fall into a heap of garbage. Suit right behind me.

Nearly there. Just need to run a little bit more. Then I'll reach the damn phone.

2:50 PM

Climbed up another damn fire escape into the next building. Here is the phone, just have to reach it. Room 303.

2:51 PM

Oh, fuck.

Reached room 303 and found suit there, waiting for me. Opened the door and got shot right in the chest.

Blood on fingers. This time I know I'm going to die. I'm dying now. I always knew before that I would somehow pull through.

I'll never see Trinity again. Never see Morpheus or Tank. Never see Zion.

2:52 PM

Against opposite wall, being shot at by suit. It doesn't matter any more. I can feel the bullets. They don't hurt any more.

Vision's going. Head going foggy. Can't think any more. All going black.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Where am I?

Is this heaven? Hell? Limbo? Purgatory?

Something is tugging at me now. Dragging me back to life. I don't want to go. At least it's nice and quiet here. I feel OK now. Don't want to go.

How long have I been here? It feels like forever, and yet it can't be. There is no time here.

Can't resist the pull of whatever it is dragging me back. It feels like a good thing, even though I don't want to go back.

* * * * * * * * * * *

2:53 PM

Eyes snapped open. Waiting for pain to come flooding back.

Hang on... I feel fine. Better than fine. Wonderful, in fact. Even though I still have bullets lodged in my chest.

I can do anything. I really can. I don't know why, but I can.

Three suits staring at me from the end of the corridor. For the first time I can see that they look shocked.

They are going to shoot at me, but it doesn't matter.

2:54 PM

Yep, they shot me. Or tried to.

I can stop bullets. So this is what Morpheus meant.

I am the One.

2:55 PM

Suit I fought now running up to me. Trying to fight me, but I move like liquid steel now. Far too fast for suit.

Kicked that suit all the way down the corridor.

I want to kill him, kill him properly. Smash whatever code he's made up of apart. Payback.

2:56 PM

I've killed him. Smashed the coding apart. I can see the Matrix now, as it really is, in code. All green and glowing.

2:57 PM

Oh, phone. Need to get to phone.

2:58 PM

Good god, what happened to the Neb? Oh, squiddies. Woke up to see them falling onto the ground.

How do squiddies float, anyway?

2:59 PM

Trinity hovering over self.

She loves me. That was the thing that dragged me back. Her love.

I love her too. I only just realised it now, but I do. I had ever since she insisted on going with me to get Morpheus.