Eon stared in terror at the gun before him. He closed his eyes and
concentrated. Suddenly he opened them and Trinity gasped, all that could be
seen where the whites of his eyes. "Auf Wiedersehen kleiner Mann (goodbye
little man)" he muttered and held his hand so the palm was facing the gun.
Slowly he pushed it forward and as he did the barrel of the gun began to
buckle and crumple back. He bared his teeth and seemed to push harder,
suddenly he pulled his hand toward his chest and the gun was pulled
straight out of the police officer's hand! It hovered in midair for a
moment then glided in to Eon's open hand. Slowly Eon closed his hand and
the gun bent and crumpled and it was closed in his fist. He opened his hand
and tipped it so it faced the floor, fine grey dust cascaded down onto the
black tarmac. The police officer stared at the ground and picked up his
radio and yelled "Send backup". Suddenly Eon leapt into the air and time
seemed to slow down. He landed on the man's shoulders and deftly kicked the
side of the man's head. The man's neck cracked and he began to fall to the
floor, Eon jumped off him and landed perfectly.
"I suggest we get out of here" said Morpheus, and then he turned to the boy "do you know a safe form of transport?"
The boy's dark brown eyes could be seen again "Yes, follow me". He led them out of the alleyway and into the street. They crossed a very busy road and headed toward a car park. The boy looked around quickly. Thank God, thought Eon, they aren't here. They followed him to a staircase; he gave them a look clearly meaning they had to be quiet. He crept up the stair case which stank of piss and decay and slowly put his head around the door out. He smiled and motioned them to follow him. There walked out and Trinity could not believe what she saw, the entire level of the care park had motorbikes in it and nothing else. No cars, vans or any other mode of transport. "Take your pick" said the boy as he walked up to a particularly nice looking model.
"Do you know how to hotwire a motorbike?" asked Trinity.
"Sure, done it a million times" he said as he looked under the seat of the motorbike. "Drivers can be really stupid some times. I mean would you leave your bike helmet under the seat?" he said as he pulled out a jet black helmet and put it on.
Trinity walked up to a blue motorbike and picked up helmets for Morpheus and herself. She got on it and looked round when she heard the roar of an engine. Eon rode up to them and pulled out something from his shirt, a penknife. "The only problem" he said as he put it in the keyhole "is" suddenly the motorbike came to life with a roar "it takes so damn long" he finished. He revved his motor bike and drove down the exit slope at top speed with Trinity right behind him.
He shot out of the car park and onto the road. Eon looked behind him to see if Trinity was following him. She was virtually bumper to bumper with him. He then realised they were going the opposite was to the traffic. He groaned, why did this always happen to him? He accelerated and shot up the freeway, Trinity was barely able to keep up with him. Then Eon saw something that made his heart stand still, a car was coming toward him but he couldn't dodge around it. Two massive trucks were on either side! He stared in shock for a moment and then by pure reflex he pulled his bike into a wheelie. H revved it making it go faster. The car was coming nearer and nearer.
Trinity stared at the boy in disbelief; he wasn't going to make it. She dodged round the outside of the trucks because she was far back enough and watched for the boy's broken bike and body.
Eon approached the car and tried to mentally prepare himself. Words seemed to come unbidden to his tongue, it was as though he'd known them all his life but he could not recall ever being told them. 'Do not think you can know you can' a voice in his mind seemed to say. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, when he opened his eyes he saw the car was almost on top of him. With all his strength he pulled up and as the car met him the bike jumped straight into the air and landed with a thud on the roof. Eon knew the roof would collapse if he wasn't quick so he bolted straight down the car and came flying out and back onto the freeway. He landed with a bump and muttered "Why me?"
Trinity looked on in awe as the boy and his bike came flying out of nowhere. She didn't think it was possible to do that. She heard the boy let out a deep sigh. Suddenly he pulled up beside them, "How much farther?" he asked.
"Another few miles" replied Morpheus.
"Mind if I tag along?"
"Not at all" said Morpheus and they revved loudly and drove to the exit Link had prepared for them.
Eon took off his helmet and looked at the man and woman who'd lives he'd just saved. There was something about them, something different. Suddenly the man came up to him, "Why did you help us?" he asked.
"I don't really know, I was walking across the road when I got this urgent feeling you needed me. I came because I thought you needed my help" he replied honestly.
"How did you bend the gun?" asked the man.
"I don't know that either, I just did it. I don't look at how when I do something I just look at the reason" Eon said nervously.
"Tell me do you know who I am?"
"No".
"Would you like to know?"
"Yes".
"I am Morpheus and this is Trinity" said the man.
Eon gaped, this man was famous "It's an honour to meet you Morpheus".
"You know something don't you? What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, it's like there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
"The Matrix" Eon said simply.
"Yes, do you want to know what it is?"
"Yes".
"Tell me have you ever seen a door, a specific door. A large oak one with a hand engraved with an O?" asked Morpheus.
"Yes I have" replied Eon.
"Where?"
"It's right behind you".
And as Morpheus turned around he saw the boy was right. Neo's door was right behind him; this boy had the ability to summon the door even if he didn't realise it. "Tell me, what is your name?"
"I told you, Jack Conerly".
"No your real name".
"Eon, they call me Eon" said the boy.
Morpheus stared and suddenly nodded to Trinity who called Link to tell him they were awakening another soon. But first he must take the child to Neo. Morpheus walked up to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. He with both hands and yet the door would not budge. Trinity tapped him on the shoulder and she too tried to open the door and it would not budge. Frustrated Morpheus banged his head on the wall, suddenly the boy, Eon, tapped his arm. "Let me try" he said. It couldn't hurt, thought Morpheus and he moved out of the way so the boy could try to open the door. The boy gripped the handle and turned it and the door opened revealing Neo's garden. "How did you do that?" asked Trinity.
"Do not question how just try to think of why" Eon replied. He spoke the words and his voice sounded almost exactly like Neo's. Hesitantly Morpheus walked into Neo's garden, he looked around, where was Neo? Suddenly he heard footsteps and door seemed to open out of a tree and out of it stepped Neo. He smiled at them and motioned hem to come closer. He walked across the clearing to them, "I see he found you then" he said simply then he turned to Eon and said "Hallo wissen Sie macht, wer ich bin (hello do you know who I am?)".
"Ja (yes)" replied Eon, "Ich weiß Sie aber ich weiß wie nicht (I know you but I do not know how)".
Neo laughed "Wissen Sie, daß wir einen Anschluß teilen? (You know we share a connection)".
"Ja" Eon replied.
"You're German is very fluent Eon, you practise often?"
"All the time, it's a good language to swear at people. Die Regierung kann kein Deutsch lesen, das Signal hackt (the government cannot read a German hacking signal)" said Eon simply.
"Sie kow, was Sie machen müssen? (You know what you must do?)" asked Neo.
"Nein (no)".
"Ich habe nicht gedacht (I thought not)" Neo turned to Morpheus "you must take him to see the Oracle, after you've unplugged and trained him of course" he said matter-of-factly.
"Trained him to do what?" asked Morpheus.
"Trained him to disappear, the agents won't see him coming. Like a spy you could say. You will know what to do". He smiled and said to Eon "Frei ihres gemüt (free your mind)" and suddenly they were on their motor bikes in the place they had started.
Morpheus looked at eon for a moment and then got off the bike and motioned him to follow him. He turned to Eon and said "are you sure you want to know what the Matrix is?"
"Yes" Eon replied.
Morpheus took out the pills. "This is your last chance, after this there is not turning back. You take the blue pill" he said opening his left hand to reveal the small pill "the story ends, you wake up in you bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red however" he opened his right hand to reveal the red pill "you stay with us and I show you how deep trouble can get. The choice is purely you own". He held his hands out to Eon so he could choose.
Eon was a bit apprehensive; he was unsure what to do. He stared at the hands holding the pills before him for a heartbeat, and then he slowly reached out his hand to take the red pill. Gingerly he picked it up and put it in his mouth swallowing it almost instantly. Morpheus got up and motioned him to follow him into a house, it looked old and abandoned. He followed Morpheus into a room with a strange chair. "Sit" said Morpheus and he sat, looking around nervously. Trinity attached the wires to his arms and neck, where the plugs would be, but he didn't know that of course. "Ready" said Morpheus and he nodded. "Then let's wake you" said Trinity smiling. Suddenly there was this funny feeling in his stomach and he screamed, to his horror his scream turned into the sound of the internet when it logged on, (phone sound). Suddenly everything went black.
Eon was suddenly in a strange object. A pod. He could feel something in his arms and chest and head and.well.everywhere. Suddenly he realised he was sealed in this pod; he pushed one of his hands up against the strange gooey layer stopping him. He pushed against it hard, he broke and he hauled himself into a sitting position. He felt something in his nose and mouth! Blindly he grabbed the end of it and yanked it out, coughing up fluid as he did so. He put his hands too his eyes and wiped away the goo from the pod that sealed them shut. He looked at his arms and almost screamed. There were wires coming out of him! They were all over his chest, legs and down his spine! Suddenly he felt something very large in the back of his neck, he reached back and gripped it, it was a thick cable coming right out of his neck!
He looked to his left and starred in awe. There were thousands upon thousands of pods like his except the occupants were still inside them, as he had been. He looked down; there were thousands more beneath him.
Suddenly a wiring reached his ears, a hovering robot appeared in front of him. Suddenly the head jutted out revealing four long metal arms, it shone a bright light at him and he had to close it eyes because it hurt so much. Suddenly one of the arms grabbed his throat and another went round the back of his head. He felt the large cable in his head being unscrewed. He was glad but it hurt, it felt like a knife was being pulled in and out, in and out. Suddenly the robot let go and disappeared, the other wires on his arms and body began to snap away, he almost screamed in agony. Suddenly the bottom of his pod opened and he flew down a tube and into freezing cold water.
He fought to stay on the surface, but his muscles weren't responding. He was going under! He couldn't breathe, just as he slipped beneath the surface a metal claw grabbed him and pulled him out of the water and into a hover craft. He was aware of some material being rapped around him and being lifted into the air, suddenly he saw Morpheus' face, "welcome to the real world" was all he heard before he blacked out.
"I suggest we get out of here" said Morpheus, and then he turned to the boy "do you know a safe form of transport?"
The boy's dark brown eyes could be seen again "Yes, follow me". He led them out of the alleyway and into the street. They crossed a very busy road and headed toward a car park. The boy looked around quickly. Thank God, thought Eon, they aren't here. They followed him to a staircase; he gave them a look clearly meaning they had to be quiet. He crept up the stair case which stank of piss and decay and slowly put his head around the door out. He smiled and motioned them to follow him. There walked out and Trinity could not believe what she saw, the entire level of the care park had motorbikes in it and nothing else. No cars, vans or any other mode of transport. "Take your pick" said the boy as he walked up to a particularly nice looking model.
"Do you know how to hotwire a motorbike?" asked Trinity.
"Sure, done it a million times" he said as he looked under the seat of the motorbike. "Drivers can be really stupid some times. I mean would you leave your bike helmet under the seat?" he said as he pulled out a jet black helmet and put it on.
Trinity walked up to a blue motorbike and picked up helmets for Morpheus and herself. She got on it and looked round when she heard the roar of an engine. Eon rode up to them and pulled out something from his shirt, a penknife. "The only problem" he said as he put it in the keyhole "is" suddenly the motorbike came to life with a roar "it takes so damn long" he finished. He revved his motor bike and drove down the exit slope at top speed with Trinity right behind him.
He shot out of the car park and onto the road. Eon looked behind him to see if Trinity was following him. She was virtually bumper to bumper with him. He then realised they were going the opposite was to the traffic. He groaned, why did this always happen to him? He accelerated and shot up the freeway, Trinity was barely able to keep up with him. Then Eon saw something that made his heart stand still, a car was coming toward him but he couldn't dodge around it. Two massive trucks were on either side! He stared in shock for a moment and then by pure reflex he pulled his bike into a wheelie. H revved it making it go faster. The car was coming nearer and nearer.
Trinity stared at the boy in disbelief; he wasn't going to make it. She dodged round the outside of the trucks because she was far back enough and watched for the boy's broken bike and body.
Eon approached the car and tried to mentally prepare himself. Words seemed to come unbidden to his tongue, it was as though he'd known them all his life but he could not recall ever being told them. 'Do not think you can know you can' a voice in his mind seemed to say. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, when he opened his eyes he saw the car was almost on top of him. With all his strength he pulled up and as the car met him the bike jumped straight into the air and landed with a thud on the roof. Eon knew the roof would collapse if he wasn't quick so he bolted straight down the car and came flying out and back onto the freeway. He landed with a bump and muttered "Why me?"
Trinity looked on in awe as the boy and his bike came flying out of nowhere. She didn't think it was possible to do that. She heard the boy let out a deep sigh. Suddenly he pulled up beside them, "How much farther?" he asked.
"Another few miles" replied Morpheus.
"Mind if I tag along?"
"Not at all" said Morpheus and they revved loudly and drove to the exit Link had prepared for them.
Eon took off his helmet and looked at the man and woman who'd lives he'd just saved. There was something about them, something different. Suddenly the man came up to him, "Why did you help us?" he asked.
"I don't really know, I was walking across the road when I got this urgent feeling you needed me. I came because I thought you needed my help" he replied honestly.
"How did you bend the gun?" asked the man.
"I don't know that either, I just did it. I don't look at how when I do something I just look at the reason" Eon said nervously.
"Tell me do you know who I am?"
"No".
"Would you like to know?"
"Yes".
"I am Morpheus and this is Trinity" said the man.
Eon gaped, this man was famous "It's an honour to meet you Morpheus".
"You know something don't you? What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, it's like there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
"The Matrix" Eon said simply.
"Yes, do you want to know what it is?"
"Yes".
"Tell me have you ever seen a door, a specific door. A large oak one with a hand engraved with an O?" asked Morpheus.
"Yes I have" replied Eon.
"Where?"
"It's right behind you".
And as Morpheus turned around he saw the boy was right. Neo's door was right behind him; this boy had the ability to summon the door even if he didn't realise it. "Tell me, what is your name?"
"I told you, Jack Conerly".
"No your real name".
"Eon, they call me Eon" said the boy.
Morpheus stared and suddenly nodded to Trinity who called Link to tell him they were awakening another soon. But first he must take the child to Neo. Morpheus walked up to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. He with both hands and yet the door would not budge. Trinity tapped him on the shoulder and she too tried to open the door and it would not budge. Frustrated Morpheus banged his head on the wall, suddenly the boy, Eon, tapped his arm. "Let me try" he said. It couldn't hurt, thought Morpheus and he moved out of the way so the boy could try to open the door. The boy gripped the handle and turned it and the door opened revealing Neo's garden. "How did you do that?" asked Trinity.
"Do not question how just try to think of why" Eon replied. He spoke the words and his voice sounded almost exactly like Neo's. Hesitantly Morpheus walked into Neo's garden, he looked around, where was Neo? Suddenly he heard footsteps and door seemed to open out of a tree and out of it stepped Neo. He smiled at them and motioned hem to come closer. He walked across the clearing to them, "I see he found you then" he said simply then he turned to Eon and said "Hallo wissen Sie macht, wer ich bin (hello do you know who I am?)".
"Ja (yes)" replied Eon, "Ich weiß Sie aber ich weiß wie nicht (I know you but I do not know how)".
Neo laughed "Wissen Sie, daß wir einen Anschluß teilen? (You know we share a connection)".
"Ja" Eon replied.
"You're German is very fluent Eon, you practise often?"
"All the time, it's a good language to swear at people. Die Regierung kann kein Deutsch lesen, das Signal hackt (the government cannot read a German hacking signal)" said Eon simply.
"Sie kow, was Sie machen müssen? (You know what you must do?)" asked Neo.
"Nein (no)".
"Ich habe nicht gedacht (I thought not)" Neo turned to Morpheus "you must take him to see the Oracle, after you've unplugged and trained him of course" he said matter-of-factly.
"Trained him to do what?" asked Morpheus.
"Trained him to disappear, the agents won't see him coming. Like a spy you could say. You will know what to do". He smiled and said to Eon "Frei ihres gemüt (free your mind)" and suddenly they were on their motor bikes in the place they had started.
Morpheus looked at eon for a moment and then got off the bike and motioned him to follow him. He turned to Eon and said "are you sure you want to know what the Matrix is?"
"Yes" Eon replied.
Morpheus took out the pills. "This is your last chance, after this there is not turning back. You take the blue pill" he said opening his left hand to reveal the small pill "the story ends, you wake up in you bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red however" he opened his right hand to reveal the red pill "you stay with us and I show you how deep trouble can get. The choice is purely you own". He held his hands out to Eon so he could choose.
Eon was a bit apprehensive; he was unsure what to do. He stared at the hands holding the pills before him for a heartbeat, and then he slowly reached out his hand to take the red pill. Gingerly he picked it up and put it in his mouth swallowing it almost instantly. Morpheus got up and motioned him to follow him into a house, it looked old and abandoned. He followed Morpheus into a room with a strange chair. "Sit" said Morpheus and he sat, looking around nervously. Trinity attached the wires to his arms and neck, where the plugs would be, but he didn't know that of course. "Ready" said Morpheus and he nodded. "Then let's wake you" said Trinity smiling. Suddenly there was this funny feeling in his stomach and he screamed, to his horror his scream turned into the sound of the internet when it logged on, (phone sound). Suddenly everything went black.
Eon was suddenly in a strange object. A pod. He could feel something in his arms and chest and head and.well.everywhere. Suddenly he realised he was sealed in this pod; he pushed one of his hands up against the strange gooey layer stopping him. He pushed against it hard, he broke and he hauled himself into a sitting position. He felt something in his nose and mouth! Blindly he grabbed the end of it and yanked it out, coughing up fluid as he did so. He put his hands too his eyes and wiped away the goo from the pod that sealed them shut. He looked at his arms and almost screamed. There were wires coming out of him! They were all over his chest, legs and down his spine! Suddenly he felt something very large in the back of his neck, he reached back and gripped it, it was a thick cable coming right out of his neck!
He looked to his left and starred in awe. There were thousands upon thousands of pods like his except the occupants were still inside them, as he had been. He looked down; there were thousands more beneath him.
Suddenly a wiring reached his ears, a hovering robot appeared in front of him. Suddenly the head jutted out revealing four long metal arms, it shone a bright light at him and he had to close it eyes because it hurt so much. Suddenly one of the arms grabbed his throat and another went round the back of his head. He felt the large cable in his head being unscrewed. He was glad but it hurt, it felt like a knife was being pulled in and out, in and out. Suddenly the robot let go and disappeared, the other wires on his arms and body began to snap away, he almost screamed in agony. Suddenly the bottom of his pod opened and he flew down a tube and into freezing cold water.
He fought to stay on the surface, but his muscles weren't responding. He was going under! He couldn't breathe, just as he slipped beneath the surface a metal claw grabbed him and pulled him out of the water and into a hover craft. He was aware of some material being rapped around him and being lifted into the air, suddenly he saw Morpheus' face, "welcome to the real world" was all he heard before he blacked out.