Chapter 4
Two days had passed since Static's training, and he had become accustomed
with living in the real world. The ship was now less of a cold, dark,
depressing place now. He had learned about the Agents and the robot
conquerors of humanity.
"We're going in." Rook said nonchalantly as he entered the mess hall.
"We're going in where?" Static asked Kali.
"The matrix."
Static started to realize that the crew of the Valhalla was intentionally
cryptic.
"Why?"
"The Oracle."
"Why is it that whenever I ask a question, you answer with 2 words?"
"Don't know," Kali replied with a smirk "Come on. We got to get to the main
deck."
Once on the main deck, static saw that Rook was already plugged in.
"Mother jack us in.," said Kali.
"His masters voice." Mother said as he plugged her in.
Once in the construct, Static saw that Rook and Kali were picking up
various weapons from racks that seemed to go on forever.
"If we're just going to see this oracle, what's with the weapons?"
"We never go into the matrix unarmed." Explained Rook.
'Well I guess it cant hurt to be prepared," Said Static as he picked 2
Berettas off the rack. "I need a shoulder holster."
"Mother give him a shoulder holster." Said Rook to an imaginary ceiling.
Static saw that he was now wearing a shoulder holster, "Figures."
"We're ready" Rook said to Mother.
Suddenly Static watched a parking garage materialize around him. Rook took out his phone and snapped it open, "We're in." And then they all
got into the black Sedan they came into the matrix with.
Twenty minutes later and Static and Rook walked into a building with light
green walls, splattered with graffiti.
"This is a depressing décor." Static thought out loud.
"She likes to keep a low profile."
"The Oracle?"
"Yes."
"So she knows everything?"
"She would say she knows enough."
The two of them stepped into an elevator and went up. As soon as the
elevator got to the correct floor, they stepped out into a corridor
infested with even more graffiti than the ground floor.
"God, this place is a shit hole." Static said.
"Would you think of finding an oracle in a place like this?"
"No, I guess I see your point."
"Remember, in the matrix, few things are as they seem."
Static and Rook stood in front of the door for an inordinate amount of
time.
"You gonna go in?" Static said with a small laugh.
"Yeah, in a second, I wanna try something."
They both stood there for about a minute, and then Rook went to open the
door, only to be beat to it by the person on the other end.
"She said you would delay." Said the black woman on the other side of the
threshold.
"Damn." Rook said with one of his rare smiles.
"Come in, make yourself at home. She will be with you shortly.
Rook sat on a green couch while static slouched in the seat next to him.
"What can I expect?" Static said with a grown.
"You tired?"
"Yeah. The last few days have been hectic. But you of course know that."
"You get used to it eventually."
"Static, she'll see you now."said the polite woman who opened the front
door.
Static stood up and looked at himself. He was wearing a navy blue button-up shirt with grey khakis and a black corduroy jacket. We tried to straighten
himself out to look more presentable.
"I wouldn't worry about it." Rook said.
Static walked into a kitchen to see a cheerful looking woman spreading
icing on a cake.
"You're the oracle?"
"Yes I am. Not what you expected am I?" said the oracle, referring to her
resemblance to any house wife.
"No I expected more conjurer of fear, wrath of the almighty, but I suppose
I should be grateful."
"And why is that?"
"Well now I have less reason to be afraid."
"Well, that's good. Fear can affect my judgments. Cake?"
"No, thank you. I'm not a fan of baked goods."
"Come here, let me get a good look at you." Said the oracle as she grabbed
his wrists and looked at his hands, then his entire body.
"What is there to see?"
"Your future."
"And what is to come?"
"You have a peculiar fate."
"Well I like to think since I've been unplugged it is already been
peculiar."
"Things are gonna get a little weirder."
"How so. And why is everyone so damned cryptic." Static said, raising his
voice.
"Don't get smart with me."
"I'm sorry. Its just no one can ever give me a straight answer." Static
replied with an apologetic tone.
"Well here is your straight answer. You will meet, and save, an angel."
"Come again." Static said, confused.
"An angel. She'll explain it to you when you meet her."
"She?"
"Mm Hmm."
"Is she hot?"
"A man in your position should think of something other than romance.
Besides, she's not your type."
"I'll take your word for it."
"You were thirsty right?"
"Yeah, how did you."
Before he could finish, she threw him a coke from behind the refrigerator
door.
"I'm an oracle, it's my job to know things. Goodbye"
"Goodbye."
Static turned and walked through the door and over to Rook.
"Done?"
"Yeah."
"Lets go."
The two of them walked out into the hallway, and onto the elevator. Rook
pushed for the ground floor.
"That was fuckin weird." Static said rubbing his face.
They reached the ground floor without another word. They got into the Sedan
and started driving.
"What next?" asked Static.
"Next we go to Zion." Replied Kali behind the wheel.
"What do we need there?"
"Shit." Kali said as she tried to swerve from a speeding car, only to be
back sided by the pursuing police officer.
They all got out and started walking towards the police officer.
"Hey, you people need to pay attention to the sirens. You could really." Said the officer as he was cut short by the bullets ripping into his chest.
"Why did you shoot him?" Static yelled.
"He was in the way." Replied Kali.
"Ill drive, you two grab the weapons out of the trunk." Rook said to the
others.
Rook and Kali got in the front seats while Static got in the back seat.
"We got cops chasing us." Static told Rook.
"Well slow them down!"
Without another word Static leaned out the window and started shooting at the cops with the shotgun he had found. He was able to slow down several
cars but they just kept coming.
"Kali, some help here!"
Kali leaned out the passenger side window with her mp5 and started blasting at the pursuing vehicles. "Aim for the engines." She yelled between blasts.
"NO SHIT!"
"Where to now, Mother?" Rook asked the wily operator over the phone.
"You better speed up, skipper, you got an agent on your tail. Just get back
to the parking garage, there's an exit there."
Rook hung up and yelled to his comrades "AGENT." Rook looked forward and saw that there were no cars immediately in front of him. He swerved the car
and started driving in reverse.
"What the fu-" Static said as he was nearly jerked out of the car.
Rook pulled the mac11 he had hidden in his coat and started shooting at the
cop cars through the window. He saw the agent the same time as Kali and Static, and they all simultaneously opened fire at it, shredding the hood
and windshield into unrecognizable fragments of glass and metal. The
ensuing explosion halted the pace of the following cars.
"Thanks for the heads up on that swerve boss." Static said sarcastically as
he pulled himself back into the car.
"We gotta get to the bottom level of the parking garage," Rook said, as if
Static's comment was below him. "Then we can get out."
"Sounds good." Replied Kali.
Ten minutes later, Rook was swerving around the corners of the car garage, trying to get to the hard line fast, but not so fast as to tip the car on
an incline.
"There's the phone." Yelled Rook as he swerved the car within five feet of
the phone.
Static kicked the back door out of the car as Kali and Rook ran to the
phone.
"You first Static."
"No, Send Kali first."
Kali grabbed the phone and disappeared.
"You next." Rook told Static.
Static grabbed the phone just as he saw the agent, and pushed it to Rooks
ear.
"No" Was Rook's last word before he disappeared.
Static hung up the phone, and started firing his Berettas at the agent in
an attempt to slow him down.
The phone ringed beside Static, but sounded muted next to Static's
Berettas.
Static ran out of ammo, and the agent charged at him. He grabbed the phone and disappeared just as the agent punched his fist into the wall where his
head was.
"What a rush." Static said as he noticed the bruises in his side from Rook
jack-knifing the car.
"Now you see why we run from agents." Kali said.
"Yeah. When are we going to Zion?"
"Now." Rook answered.
Two days had passed since Static's training, and he had become accustomed
with living in the real world. The ship was now less of a cold, dark,
depressing place now. He had learned about the Agents and the robot
conquerors of humanity.
"We're going in." Rook said nonchalantly as he entered the mess hall.
"We're going in where?" Static asked Kali.
"The matrix."
Static started to realize that the crew of the Valhalla was intentionally
cryptic.
"Why?"
"The Oracle."
"Why is it that whenever I ask a question, you answer with 2 words?"
"Don't know," Kali replied with a smirk "Come on. We got to get to the main
deck."
Once on the main deck, static saw that Rook was already plugged in.
"Mother jack us in.," said Kali.
"His masters voice." Mother said as he plugged her in.
Once in the construct, Static saw that Rook and Kali were picking up
various weapons from racks that seemed to go on forever.
"If we're just going to see this oracle, what's with the weapons?"
"We never go into the matrix unarmed." Explained Rook.
'Well I guess it cant hurt to be prepared," Said Static as he picked 2
Berettas off the rack. "I need a shoulder holster."
"Mother give him a shoulder holster." Said Rook to an imaginary ceiling.
Static saw that he was now wearing a shoulder holster, "Figures."
"We're ready" Rook said to Mother.
Suddenly Static watched a parking garage materialize around him. Rook took out his phone and snapped it open, "We're in." And then they all
got into the black Sedan they came into the matrix with.
Twenty minutes later and Static and Rook walked into a building with light
green walls, splattered with graffiti.
"This is a depressing décor." Static thought out loud.
"She likes to keep a low profile."
"The Oracle?"
"Yes."
"So she knows everything?"
"She would say she knows enough."
The two of them stepped into an elevator and went up. As soon as the
elevator got to the correct floor, they stepped out into a corridor
infested with even more graffiti than the ground floor.
"God, this place is a shit hole." Static said.
"Would you think of finding an oracle in a place like this?"
"No, I guess I see your point."
"Remember, in the matrix, few things are as they seem."
Static and Rook stood in front of the door for an inordinate amount of
time.
"You gonna go in?" Static said with a small laugh.
"Yeah, in a second, I wanna try something."
They both stood there for about a minute, and then Rook went to open the
door, only to be beat to it by the person on the other end.
"She said you would delay." Said the black woman on the other side of the
threshold.
"Damn." Rook said with one of his rare smiles.
"Come in, make yourself at home. She will be with you shortly.
Rook sat on a green couch while static slouched in the seat next to him.
"What can I expect?" Static said with a grown.
"You tired?"
"Yeah. The last few days have been hectic. But you of course know that."
"You get used to it eventually."
"Static, she'll see you now."said the polite woman who opened the front
door.
Static stood up and looked at himself. He was wearing a navy blue button-up shirt with grey khakis and a black corduroy jacket. We tried to straighten
himself out to look more presentable.
"I wouldn't worry about it." Rook said.
Static walked into a kitchen to see a cheerful looking woman spreading
icing on a cake.
"You're the oracle?"
"Yes I am. Not what you expected am I?" said the oracle, referring to her
resemblance to any house wife.
"No I expected more conjurer of fear, wrath of the almighty, but I suppose
I should be grateful."
"And why is that?"
"Well now I have less reason to be afraid."
"Well, that's good. Fear can affect my judgments. Cake?"
"No, thank you. I'm not a fan of baked goods."
"Come here, let me get a good look at you." Said the oracle as she grabbed
his wrists and looked at his hands, then his entire body.
"What is there to see?"
"Your future."
"And what is to come?"
"You have a peculiar fate."
"Well I like to think since I've been unplugged it is already been
peculiar."
"Things are gonna get a little weirder."
"How so. And why is everyone so damned cryptic." Static said, raising his
voice.
"Don't get smart with me."
"I'm sorry. Its just no one can ever give me a straight answer." Static
replied with an apologetic tone.
"Well here is your straight answer. You will meet, and save, an angel."
"Come again." Static said, confused.
"An angel. She'll explain it to you when you meet her."
"She?"
"Mm Hmm."
"Is she hot?"
"A man in your position should think of something other than romance.
Besides, she's not your type."
"I'll take your word for it."
"You were thirsty right?"
"Yeah, how did you."
Before he could finish, she threw him a coke from behind the refrigerator
door.
"I'm an oracle, it's my job to know things. Goodbye"
"Goodbye."
Static turned and walked through the door and over to Rook.
"Done?"
"Yeah."
"Lets go."
The two of them walked out into the hallway, and onto the elevator. Rook
pushed for the ground floor.
"That was fuckin weird." Static said rubbing his face.
They reached the ground floor without another word. They got into the Sedan
and started driving.
"What next?" asked Static.
"Next we go to Zion." Replied Kali behind the wheel.
"What do we need there?"
"Shit." Kali said as she tried to swerve from a speeding car, only to be
back sided by the pursuing police officer.
They all got out and started walking towards the police officer.
"Hey, you people need to pay attention to the sirens. You could really." Said the officer as he was cut short by the bullets ripping into his chest.
"Why did you shoot him?" Static yelled.
"He was in the way." Replied Kali.
"Ill drive, you two grab the weapons out of the trunk." Rook said to the
others.
Rook and Kali got in the front seats while Static got in the back seat.
"We got cops chasing us." Static told Rook.
"Well slow them down!"
Without another word Static leaned out the window and started shooting at the cops with the shotgun he had found. He was able to slow down several
cars but they just kept coming.
"Kali, some help here!"
Kali leaned out the passenger side window with her mp5 and started blasting at the pursuing vehicles. "Aim for the engines." She yelled between blasts.
"NO SHIT!"
"Where to now, Mother?" Rook asked the wily operator over the phone.
"You better speed up, skipper, you got an agent on your tail. Just get back
to the parking garage, there's an exit there."
Rook hung up and yelled to his comrades "AGENT." Rook looked forward and saw that there were no cars immediately in front of him. He swerved the car
and started driving in reverse.
"What the fu-" Static said as he was nearly jerked out of the car.
Rook pulled the mac11 he had hidden in his coat and started shooting at the
cop cars through the window. He saw the agent the same time as Kali and Static, and they all simultaneously opened fire at it, shredding the hood
and windshield into unrecognizable fragments of glass and metal. The
ensuing explosion halted the pace of the following cars.
"Thanks for the heads up on that swerve boss." Static said sarcastically as
he pulled himself back into the car.
"We gotta get to the bottom level of the parking garage," Rook said, as if
Static's comment was below him. "Then we can get out."
"Sounds good." Replied Kali.
Ten minutes later, Rook was swerving around the corners of the car garage, trying to get to the hard line fast, but not so fast as to tip the car on
an incline.
"There's the phone." Yelled Rook as he swerved the car within five feet of
the phone.
Static kicked the back door out of the car as Kali and Rook ran to the
phone.
"You first Static."
"No, Send Kali first."
Kali grabbed the phone and disappeared.
"You next." Rook told Static.
Static grabbed the phone just as he saw the agent, and pushed it to Rooks
ear.
"No" Was Rook's last word before he disappeared.
Static hung up the phone, and started firing his Berettas at the agent in
an attempt to slow him down.
The phone ringed beside Static, but sounded muted next to Static's
Berettas.
Static ran out of ammo, and the agent charged at him. He grabbed the phone and disappeared just as the agent punched his fist into the wall where his
head was.
"What a rush." Static said as he noticed the bruises in his side from Rook
jack-knifing the car.
"Now you see why we run from agents." Kali said.
"Yeah. When are we going to Zion?"
"Now." Rook answered.